Teaching a robot how to play Jenga is a lot more difficult than it sounds. Rather than relying on visual information alone, players have to poke, tap, and feel individual wooden blocks to choose which ...

A team of MIT engineers developed a system that robots can use to play Jenga. This classic game is pretty simple -- players must remove individual blocks from a stacked tower without knocking the ...

While the rules of Jenga are pretty simple to grasp, for a robot to play it also needs to understand physics and gain a sense of touch. Our team tests, rates, and reviews more than 1,500 products each ...

Robots are an increasingly common feature of everyday life, whether they are cleaning your house or stacking shelves at the grocery store. Now engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Leslie Scott was fiddling with her kid brother’s wooden toy blocks one day when she began stacking one on top of another. With no purpose in mind, the 17-year-old, who was living in Ghana at the time, ...

Anyone who has played a game of Jenga will know the delicate touch required to keep the tower of wooden blocks from crashing down, and it's not the kind of finesse you'd associate with a typical robot ...

The real game of Jenga is a love/hate kind of thing. The actual act of playing this game of block removal and stacking is pretty fun, but goodness knows it's a pain to stack those things up again ...