Could you beat a robot at Jenga? A robot created by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have used AI to create a robot that can probably beat a human at Jenga, according to CNN (watch, runtime: 0:53). The robot has been designed to both see and feel the individual blocks that make up a Jenga tower, but unlike many automatized AI devices, this robot can actually respond to real-time information to learn which blocks to remove as it plays.

What kind of robot is this, anyway? Researchers condensed what the robot needed to learn to master the game, allowing it to learn more efficiently. So it processes feedback, using a camera and force-sensing wrist cuff, in a way that enables it to make judgments.

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