[ExI] Mastering Dexterity

[Adrian Tymes]

Nice, but only 20 output channels?  A human fingertip has thousands of
sensors, and touch has proven key to dexterity.  See
https://www.peraspera.us/p/robotics :

> There's two videos that Rodney Brooks, legendary MIT roboticists and founder of iRobot, likes to show those who think we’re close to solving robotic manipulation.
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> In the first, a woman picks up a match and lights it. Takes about seven seconds. Normal stuff. In the second, researchers at Umeå University anesthetize just her fingertips and ask her to try again. She still has perfect vision. Full muscle control. Complete awareness of where her hands are in space. She's only lost sensation in her fingertips. The seven-second task takes nearly half a minute. She fumbles for the match, drops it, can’t orient properly between her fingers.

The two videos are https://youtu.be/zGIDptsNZMo and
https://youtu.be/HH6QD0MgqDQ .

On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 8:10 AM John Clark via extropy-chat
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> Now that robots have mastered the art of bipedal locomotion the next step is manual dexterity, and it looks like they're making a lot of progress there too.
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> Mastering Dexterity, Defining Precision l Official release of WUJl HAND!
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> John K Clark
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