Robots Can Now Play Jenga As Well As Humans Do

Up until now, Jenga has merely been a game for humans. But everything just has changed now. A group of researchers has successfully created robots that can play this game as well as we do.

You may not believe it, but Jenga requires more than a pair of hands, it's also about our sense of touch. We can play it very well just by looking at it and analyze the state of a Jenga tower visually.

The most noteworthy thing about this innovation is that this robot wasn't instructed to play the game explicitly. The bot learns everything all by itself, whether it is deciding which block to remove to how to place on top of other blocks without collapsing the structure. It is a try-and-learn process. After about 100 times of playing, it has discovered that moving a not-easy-to-move block can be damaging to the game's result.

What this research wants to point out isn't that now we can play Jenga with robots, but that we are now able to build robots that are more adaptable and multi-functional. Creating bots that are not only able to learn by itself but also can accomplish many different jobs altogether can be both economically beneficial and efficient for producing or simply helping with household chores.