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Bezos Expects Robotic Hands To Be Ready Within 10 Years

Jeff Bezos took control of a pair of giant remote-controlled robot hands at Amazon’s re:MARS robotics conference in Las Vegas.

The hands don’t just mirror the movement of the person wearing the gloves — they’re designed to transmit the feeling of touch, known as haptic or tactile feedback, reports Business Insider.

Bezos manages to pick up a plastic cup and stack it on top of a tower of other cups. But the Rubik’s cube next to the cups remained unsolved.

“No thank you, I can’t even do that with my hands,” you can hear Bezos say in the video.

Bezos described the feedback as “tremendous” and said that using the hands felt “weirdly natural.”

He believes such robotic hands will be ready for commercial use within the next decade, writes Computing. The technology will be used to create commercial robots able to grasp items as reliably as humans, eventually leading to automation of warehouse jobs – and many others besides – across the world.

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