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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Open AI — a non-profit started by Elon Musk — has found a way to programme a robot hand so that it can nimbly manipulate an object using human-like movements it has taught itself.