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dexterity

[dek-ster-i-tee] / dɛkˈstɛr ɪ ti /


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The company has already secured orders for a new version of Digit that it is developing, which should have finer dexterity to move smaller objects and incorporate higher safety standards, according to Johnson.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 24, 2026

The main aim of the offer is to perform tasks requiring dexterity, to train the robots of the future to use their hands.

From BBC Jun. 20, 2026

Sharpa is an AI start-up developing hands that have humanlike dexterity.

From Barron's Jun. 1, 2026

Some scientists believe this could eventually lead to more expressive digital instruments, smarter training tools, and even rehabilitation systems that use musical movement to improve dexterity and coordination.

From Science Daily May 28, 2026

Our understanding of genes has allowed us to manipulate organisms with unparalleled dexterity and power.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee

The crusty paint on ragged burlap, the blurred and bulbous shapes, can only be made to look tragic within the context of Klee's earlier dexterities.

From Time Magazine Archive

Take, in the devil's name, the hire of your dexterities," said Ysabeau, and pushed this document with her wet pen-point toward March, "and ride for Berkeley now upon that necessary business we know of.

From Chivalry by Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott

It has begun and ended in exhibiting the dexterities of individuals, and conventionalities of systems.

From Modern Painters Volume I (of V) by John Ruskin

Indeed, his drawings often betrayed so superficial a facility, such a turn for calligraphic dexterities, that one began to wonder whether even in expecting much one had not been over sanguine.

From Since Cézanne by Clive Bell

And here was a thing for the little dexterities of a lawyer's clerk.

From The Sleuth of St. James's Square by Melville Davisson Post




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