Human hands are astonishing tools. Here's why robots are struggling to match them

Human hands are astonishing tools. Here's why robots are struggling to match them 3 days ago Claudia Baxter Estudio Santa Rita Our hands perform thousands of complex tasks every day – can artificial intelligence help robots match these extraordinary human appendages? "Recent advancements suggest that robots could eventually learn adaptable, versatile skills that enable them to handle a variety of tasks without prior specific training," he says. "A piece of hardware embedded in Sarah's prosthetic arm records the muscle signals on the surface of her skin as she visualises that particular movement," says Blair Lock, chief executive at Coapt, the developer of the AI algorithm that drives De Lagarde's arm movements. While we have made substantial progress in the last few years and human-like dexterity seems achievable, we are at least five years away, if not more – Pulkit Agrawal Human hands by comparison use the networks of touch receptors on our fingers and palms in order to sense where something is, determine just how hard we need to grip it to pick it up and sense if the friction starts to change.