{"id":25620,"date":"2016-05-12T11:31:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T18:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-five-fingered-robot-hand-is-close-to-human-in-functionality"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:53:36","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:53:36","slug":"this-five-fingered-robot-hand-is-close-to-human-in-functionality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-five-fingered-robot-hand-is-close-to-human-in-functionality","title":{"rendered":"This five-fingered robot hand is close to human in functionality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IN7VFquI7ow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You are really starting to see the shape of the Singularity, ever more clearly, in the convergence of so many engineering and scientific discoveries, inventions, and philosophical musings.<\/p>\n<p>I can say, without a doubt, that we are all living in truly extraordinary times!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"UW Dexterous Robot Hand\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-five-fingered-robot-hand-is-close-to-human-in-functionality.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"width:560px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\"><b>This five-fingered robot hand developed by University of Washington computer science and engineering researchers can learn how to perform dexterous manipulation \u2014 like spinning a tube full of coffee beans \u2014 on its own, rather than having humans program its actions. (credit: University of Washington)<\/b><\/div>\n<p>A University of Washington team of computer scientists and engineers has built what they say is one of <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~todorov\/papers\/KumarICRA13.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">the most highly capable five-fingered robot hands<\/a> in the world. It can perform dexterous manipulation and learn from its own experience without needing humans to direct it.<\/p>\n<p>Their work is described in a <a href=\"http:\/\/homes.cs.washington.edu\/~todorov\/papers\/KumarICRA16.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">paper<\/a> to be presented May 17 at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icra2016.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/this-five-fingered-robot-hand-is-close-to-human-in-functionality\">Continue reading \u201cThis five-fingered robot hand is close to human in functionality\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are really starting to see the shape of the Singularity, ever more clearly, in the convergence of so many engineering and scientific discoveries, inventions, and philosophical musings. I can say, without a doubt, that we are all living in truly extraordinary times! This five-fingered robot hand developed by University of Washington computer science and [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,38,1506,6,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-engineering","category-food","category-robotics-ai","category-singularity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620","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\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41924,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25620\/revisions\/41924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}