MIT researchers create AI system that could make robots better at handling objects

When most of us pick up an object, we don't have to think about how to orient it in our hand. It's something that comes naturally to us as we learn to navigate the world. That's something that allows young children to be more deft with their hands than even the most advanced robots available today. But that could quickly change. A team of scientists from MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory has developed a system that could one day give robots that same kind of dexterity.