Watch PR2 Robot 'Learn' How To Smartly Position An Unstable Object

Moving things: not as simple as it sounds. Robots are all thumbs. The human hand is remarkably complex, and although we've seen some interesting attempts at replicating it, we're not quite there yet. Instead, some engineers are teaching robots to make do with what they have. Two MIT students recently unveiled algorithms that robots could use to "think" their way through picking up and placing an object, and they used PR2, picker-upper 'bot extraordinaire, to demonstrate . The first algorithm, fr...