[ExI] Mastering Dexterity

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2025, 6:22 AM John Clark <johnkclark at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 21, 2025 at 8:29 AM Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> *> Nice, but only 20 output channels?  A human fingertip has thousands
>> of sensors*
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> *Yeah but I'm sure electronic channels have a far higher data carrying
> capacity than biological channels, and they're far faster too.*
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That often turns out not to be the case, when they state more than 1 data
channel. Otherwise, it's simpler to just say there's a data channel and
give the channel's bandwidth (and latency).

* And of course this robot hand is as clumsy as it's ever going to be, but
> the human hand is not getting any more dexterous.*
>

Perhaps (unless they eventually downgrade this robot hand, e.g. to cut
costs), but I'm commenting on the capabilities of this particular robot
hand at this particular time. This is a general class of problem that's
persisted for decades. Just because it is in theory solvable eventually
does not mean that this instance has solved it now.

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