It might not look that special, but the robot above is, according to a new measure, the most dexterous one ever created. Among other tricks, it could sort through your junk drawer with unrivaled speed ...

Robots are great at doing things they’ve been shown how to do, but when presented with a novel problem, such as an unfamiliar shape that needs to be gripped, they tend to choke. AI is helping there in ...

UC Berkeley’s Laboratory for Automation Science and Engineering, also known as AUTOLAB, has developed Dexterity Network, or Dex-Net, a software program that is trained to detect and pick up objects.