UW News
Emo Todorov
May 9, 2016
This five-fingered robot hand learns to get a grip on its own
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A University of Washington team of computer science and engineering researchers has built a robot hand that can not only perform dexterous manipulation – one of the most difficult problems in robotics – but also learn from its own experience.