{"id":23806,"date":"2026-07-06T01:37:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/china-wants-to-solve-the-hardest-problem-in-robotics-making-hands\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T01:37:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T23:37:16","slug":"china-wants-to-solve-the-hardest-problem-in-robotics-making-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/china-wants-to-solve-the-hardest-problem-in-robotics-making-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics \u2013 making hands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Race to develop \u2018embodied AI\u2019 focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products<\/p>\n<p>Human hands \u2013 nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton \u2013 are exceptionally complex. Many tasks that most people can do largely without thinking, from tying a pair of shoelaces to buttoning up a shirt, in fact require a complex set of neurological instructions and precise choreography. In thousands of years of human history, no machine has been able to truly replicate human\u2019s greatest tool.<\/p>\n<p>But now, as artificial intelligence (AI) races forwards, some companies think they are close to surpassing this final but most difficult hurdle in robotics. Most of them are in China.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/ng-interactive\/2026\/jul\/06\/china-dextrous-robotic-hands-humanoid\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/53ea9534d7a24ef08bb20853830b00a7491fc319\/349_0_4998_3998\/master\/4998.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=eca66820858bc5378d808e8302ebe404\" title=\"China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics \u2013 making hands\" \/>Race to develop \u2018embodied AI\u2019 focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products<br \/>\nHuman hands \u2013 nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton \u2013 are exceptionally complex. Many tasks that most people can do largely without thinking, from tying a pair of shoelaces to buttoning up a shirt, in fact require a complex set of neurological instructions and precise choreography. In thousands of years of human history, no machine has been able to truly replicate human\u2019s greatest tool.<br \/>\nBut now, as artificial intelligence (AI) races forwards, some companies think they are close to surpassing this final but most difficult hurdle in robotics. Most of them are in China. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Race to develop \u2018embodied AI\u2019 focuses on creating dextrous hands to transform humanoid robots from gimmicks into useful products Human hands \u2013 nimble, nerve-filled appendages that are the most flexible part of the human skeleton \u2013 are exceptionally complex. Many tasks that most people can do largely without thinking, from tying a pair of shoelaces &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/china-wants-to-solve-the-hardest-problem-in-robotics-making-hands\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">China wants to solve the hardest problem in robotics \u2013 making hands<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23806"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23806\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}