{"id":130092,"date":"2021-11-05T20:23:31","date_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:23:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dexterous-robotic-hands-manipulate-thousands-of-objects-with-ease"},"modified":"2021-11-05T20:23:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-06T03:23:31","slug":"dexterous-robotic-hands-manipulate-thousands-of-objects-with-ease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/dexterous-robotic-hands-manipulate-thousands-of-objects-with-ease","title":{"rendered":"Dexterous robotic hands manipulate thousands of objects with ease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/dexterous-robotic-hands-manipulate-thousands-of-objects-with-ease3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robotic hand manipulates thousands of objects with ease: bit.ly\/3bI367h<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick up and put down objects, but we\u2019re not quite there as far as replicating a natural pull towards exploratory or sophisticated dexterous manipulation goes.<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI gave it a try with \u201cDactyl\u201d (meaning \u201cfinger\u201d from the Greek word <em> daktylos), <\/em> using their humanoid robot hand to solve a Rubik\u2019s cube with software that\u2019s a step towards more general AI, and a step away from the common single-task mentality. DeepMind created \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/openreview.net\/pdf?id=U0Q8CrtBJxJ\"> <strong> RGB-Stacking <\/strong><\/a>\u201a\u201d a vision-based system that challenges a robot to learn how to grab items and stack them.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), in the ever-present quest to get machines to replicate human abilities, created a framework that\u2019s more scaled up: a system that can reorient over two thousand different objects, with the robotic hand facing both upwards and downwards. This ability to manipulate anything from a cup to a tuna can, and a Cheez-It box, could help the hand quickly pick-and-place objects in specific ways and locations \u2014 and even generalize to unseen objects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robotic hand manipulates thousands of objects with ease: bit.ly\/3bI367h At just one year old, a baby is more dexterous than a robot. Sure, machines can do more than just pick up and put down objects, but we\u2019re not quite there as far as replicating a natural pull towards exploratory or sophisticated dexterous manipulation goes. OpenAI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-130092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}