This One-Armed Robot Is Super Manipulative (in a Good Way)

Give a man a fish, the old saying goes, and you feed him for a day--teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime. Same goes for robots, with the exception that robots feed exclusively on electricity. The problem is figuring out the best way to teach them. Typically, robots get fairly detailed coded instructions on how to manipulate a particular object. But give it a different kind of object and you'll blow its mind, because the machines aren't great yet at learning and applying their skills to things they've never seen before.