A robotic hand? The SpinnerInside OpenAI, the San Francisco artificial intelligence lab founded by Elon Musk and several other big Silicon Valley names, you will find a robotic hand called Dactyl. Using the mathematical methods that allow Dactyl to learn, researchers believe they can train robotic hands and other machines to perform far more complex tasks. But the machine learning methods that drive these systems point to continued progress in the years to come. Like those at OpenAI, researchers at the University of Washington are training robotic hands that have all the same digits and joints that our hands do.

Source: New York Times July 30, 2018 15:56 UTC