The mantis shrimp comes equipped with its own weapons. It has claws that look like permanently clenched fists that are known as dactyl clubs. But when it smashes the shells of its prey, these ...

In one case, Dactyl chose a grasp that favors the thumb and little finger (possibly due to more flexibility of its pinky), while humans tend to prefer using their thumb and index or middle finger.

The group’s robotics division says that Dactyl, its humanoid robotic hand first developed last year, has learned to solve a Rubik’s cube one-handed. Dactyl gets more dexterous Skip to main content ...

Mantis shrimp are armed with a one hammer-like dactyl club on each side of its body, which act like a pair of fists and can punch with the force of a .22 caliber bullet.

Glad as we are that the dactyl is open-source, to get in there and really mess around with it requires intimate knowledge of either OpenSCAD or Clojure. Well, not anymore.

Videos of Dactyl show it rotating the cube with impressive agility. It automatically figured out several grips that humans commonly use. But the research also showed how far AI still has to go ...

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Dactyl's success proves it's possible to build a general-purpose algorithm that can teach AI to complete two very different tasks. This could make it much easier for researchers to train AI for ...

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