What is the point of designing the super-AI for your all-powerful robotic army if your drones can barely pick up their battle orders? One of the ongoing issues in robotics is that creating ways for robots to interact with the world in meaningful ways is surprisingly difficult.  Researchers at Festo have unveiled an impressively dextrous robotic arm which was inspired from the ways that elephants use their trunks.  If the thought of elephant-robots doesn’t terrify you, then you probably have better world-domination potential than I.

From Festo

via Engadget