What is dexterity in robots?

Dexterity means the same thing to robots as it does to people or animals. It is an approximation of agility, especially in the hands. To people, this means that we can touch, pick up and manipulate objects in a complex fashion, flipping a coin between your fingers for example. Robots are slightly different in that most of them have very specific functions, such as rotating an object by a set degree, and most are fitted with special tooling that enables them to grip the object in a particular way. The more functions a robot can perform and the more ways in which it can move, the more dextrous it is said to be.