What remains to be seen is whether the quadruped robot's ability to pick up a breeze block and hurl it across a warehouse with impressive dexterity and speed is among them.
Certainly not the play's source material, J. M. Barrie's smart, delightful novel of the same title, finely adapted by Liza Lorwin and told with impressive dexterity by Karen Kandel, the lone actor in a sea of puppets and their handlers (though why she gives such cloying, inconsistently accented baby voices to the central child characters remains an unhappy mystery).
Selling from a canoe doesn't look that easy either, but the fisherman is managing it with impressive dexterity, one arm outstretched towards our boat displaying a fistful of silver-grey prawns, each double the length of his palm, the other guiding the bamboo pole used to propel his narrow dugout through Kerala's web of backwater channels.
Into this melting pot comes Jay Cavendish (Kodi Smit-McPhee), a naive 16-year-old Scot searching for his lost love, Rose Ross, played with impressive dexterity by Caren Pistorius.
Twisting their limbs around the trapeze with impressive dexterity, they occasionally appear to hang just by the tips of their toes, inducing gasps from the audience.
Possibly, though the literary chameleon Pagan Kennedy charges into the future with impressive dexterity, even as her latest character is sucked back into the past.
With an impressive show of dexterity, Alvin gathered some samples, which we will examine back in the lab to learn more about the carbonate formation process and the role microbes play in global nutrient cycles.
Whether he's making sly moves on Presley's girlfriend (Elizabeth Stanley, gamely playing window dressing) or exchanging acid wisecracks with Perkins, Mr. Kreis's Lewis has a brash goofball charm ("He looks like a demented Harry Connick Jr.," my companion accurately noted), and his thrashing keyboard style is an impressive approximation of Mr. Lewis's febrile dexterity.
The Modulus robot, in contrast, had an impressive 6 degrees of freedom for each of its two arms, giving it a level of dexterity that was close to what could be achieved kinematically by a modern-day robotic product like Sawyer, the 7-axis arm from Rethink Robotics.
This film — the second from the Soskas, and shot in their hometown, Vancouver, British Columbia — combines gore, quiet dread, feminist conviction and a visual classicism, often using a red palette, with impressive, unbelabored dexterity.
