A robotic hand solving Rubik’s cube has all the makings of hype headlines, but underlying OpenAI’s latest achievement is some subtler, more interesting science.

Robot learns to use hand gestures including pointing to portray 'me' or 'you' by watching 52 hours of TED talk videos on YouTube. Scientists taught a robot how to use human-like hand gestures ...

<p>The AI research initiative that trained AI bots to play Dota 2 -- and smoke amateur gamers -- now has another win under its belt. Researchers at the OpenAI lab backed by billionaires like Elon ...

What’s more, the hand could point the way to better designs for robot limbs. Most artificial limbs require complex mechanisms to control all their moving parts, but that might be overkill.

The Genesis platform, developed by a group led by Zhou Xian of Carnegie Mellon University, processes physics calculations up to 80 times faster than existing robot simulators ( like Nvidia's Isaac ...