{"id":87177,"date":"2019-01-30T13:42:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga-but-this-is-no-game"},"modified":"2019-01-30T13:42:26","modified_gmt":"2019-01-30T21:42:26","slug":"a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga-but-this-is-no-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga-but-this-is-no-game","title":{"rendered":"A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga-but-this-is-no-game.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global thermonuclear war. The slight possibility that a massive asteroid could boop Earth. <em>Jenga<\/em>. These are a few of the things that give humans debilitating anxiety.<\/p>\n<p>Robots can\u2019t solve any of these problems for us, but one machine can now brave the angst that is the crumbling tower of wooden blocks: Researchers at MIT <a href=\"http:\/\/robotics.sciencemag.org\/lookup\/doi\/10.1126\/scirobotics.aav3123\" target=\"_blank\">report today<\/a> in <em>Science Robotics<\/em> that they\u2019ve engineered a robot to teach itself the complex physics of Jenga. This, though, is no game\u2014it\u2019s a big step in the daunting quest to get robots to manipulate objects in the real world.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ve read your last complimentary article this month. To read the full article, <a to=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.wired.com\/subscribe\/splits\/wired\/WIR_Edit_Hardcoded?source=finalbarrier_text_failsafe\">SUBSCRIBE NOW<\/a>. If you\u2019re already a subscriber, please <a to=\"\/account\/sign-in\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/account\/sign-in\/\">sign in<\/a> and and verify your subscription.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/a-robot-teaches-itself-to-play-jenga\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global thermonuclear war. The slight possibility that a massive asteroid could boop Earth. Jenga. These are a few of the things that give humans debilitating anxiety. Robots can\u2019t solve any of these problems for us, but one machine can now brave the angst that is the crumbling tower of wooden blocks: Researchers at MIT report [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87177","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}