Robotics Industry & Dexterity - Looper Robotics believes robotics will be the biggest industry in human history, with dexterity being the bottleneck [2][3] - The industry is studying and codifying dexterity learned from people using smart gloves to capture hand movements and senses [4] - This data is used to teach robot hands practical skills, transferring human dexterity to robots [5] Applications & Potential - Today, these gloves teach robots to grasp and assemble, potentially reducing workplace injuries and tackling food insecurity [6] - Tomorrow, they could guide robotic surgeons in rural hospitals or disaster zones and restore touch through prosthetic hands [6] - In 10 years, fleets of machines could share dexterity, rebuilding cities, repairing underwater cables, or exploring dangerous environments [7] Labor Market & Automation - The United States has 380,000 unfilled jobs in manufacturing, with a potential shortfall of up to 3 million workers within a decade [7] - Demographics and math are forcing the largest automation wave in modern American history [9] - Robotics can shrink inequality if built with intention, but could also displace millions of workers and concentrate power [9][10] Economic & Geopolitical Implications - Labor is becoming a commodity once more, like "the next oil," with repeatable physical and cognitive work becoming measurable and programmable [11][12] - The nations and firms that control this new commodity will have significant leverage [12] - The US needs to rewire itself to use AI at scale, seeing it as a lubricant to make systems run better, not just perfecting models [15] Policy & Strategy - An actionable idea would be a robot tax index to automation intensity, rechanneling gains into training and safety [14] - The US has no shot at winning the AI race without robotics, as AI's value is in what it touches [14][15] - Robotics is synonymous with the manufacturing of labor and should be scaled to create infrastructure that extracts value from AI [16]

See, you know what. AI and robots still have not really figured out how to use opposable thumbs when it comes to dexterity. Uh, like all of this, well, this this is still an engineering holy grail.Watch. [Music] This robotic hand delivers human-like dexterity. Each finger has about 20 degrees freedom of movement, giving them more dexterity than the average robot hand.Yeah, of progress, but definitely not like you're looking at your hands progress. Enter this new study typed out by human fingers. Now, scient ...