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How robots are grasping the art of gripping

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In the 1973 science-fiction classic Westworld, the robots that staff the film’s fictitious holiday resort are indistinguishable from their human guests, except for one small clue: the engineers, we are told, haven’t perfected the hands yet.

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Nature 557, S23-S25 (2018)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-018-05093-1

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