A Robot Teaches Itself to Play Jenga. But This Is No Game
Global thermonuclear war. The slight possibility that a massive asteroid could boop Earth. Jenga. These are a few of the things that give humans debilitating anxiety. Robots can\u2019t solve any of these problems for us, but one machine can now brave the angst that is the crumbling tower of wooden blocks: Researchers at MIT report today in Science Robotics that they\u2019ve engineered a robot to teach itself the complex physics of Jenga.