This robot can probably beat you at Jenga--thanks to its understanding of the world

Despite dazzling advances in AI, robots are still horribly ham-fisted. Increasingly, researchers and companies are turning to machine learning to make them more adaptive and dexterous. This typically means feeding the robot a video of what's in front of it and asking it to work out how it should move in order to manipulate that object. For instance, researchers at OpenAI, a nonprofit in San Francisco, taught a robotic hand to manipulate a child's block in this way. By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters and notifications from MIT Technology Review.