Nvidia, University of Toronto are making robotics research available to small firms

This article is part of our reviews of AI research papers, a series of posts that explore the latest findings in artificial intelligence. The human hand is one of the fascinating creations of nature, and one of the highly sought goals of artificial intelligence and robotics researchers. A robotic hand that could manipulate objects as we do would be enormously useful in factories, warehouses, offices, and homes. Yet despite tremendous progress in the field, research on robotics hands remains extremely expensive and limited to a few very wealthy companies and research labs. Now, new research promises to make robotics research available to resource-constrained organizations.