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The CRAFT hand is an open-source, tendon-driven robotic hand that costs under $600 to build. - features rigid links for strength - uses soft, rolling-contact joints to absorb impact - driven by 15 motors in the forearm, it can perform all 33 Feix grasp types

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Open-Source Robotic Hand That Costs Just $300. California-based company TetherIA.ai has officially launched its open-source robotic hand, the Aero Hand Open. Designed to be the most capable at the lowest cost, this hand is a new tool for embodied AI research. In the clip, it demonstrates impressive dexterity by grasping an M5 screw, picking up an iPhone, and opening a soda can. Key Features: ► Price: $314.00 ► Open Source: CAD, electronics, and firmware are all open source. ► Actuation: 7 Active Degrees of Freedom (16 joints) with a tendon-driven design. ► Weight: Under 400 grams. ► Purpose: Built for embodied AI research to make dexterous manipulation accessible to all. For more details and to purchase:

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An engineer from 1X explains why NEO's tendon system is more natural and safer: When a human arm makes contact with a robotic hand equipped with geared joints, the hand continues to operate，potentially causing injury. NEO, however, contains no gears; it is driven by tendons. Upon contact with a human, it yields and adapts to the person's movements,responding just as naturally as a human would. (Friendly HRI)

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.Brett Adcock explains why Figure pivoted away from designing their humanoid robot's hands after human hands: "This is extremely important. If we want to solve AGI and get to human intelligence in the physical world—it's all going to start with the hands." "Our first-generation hand is a tendon-driven hand." "The rationale here is that a human hand is like this: most of our motors are in our forearm and little tendons drive all the fingers." "It ended up becoming the wrong engineering choice." "We recently unveiled our high degree of freedom, next-generation hand a month ago. This hand has human-level dexterity, as many joints in the hand as a human."

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323,480 views • 21 days ago

tesla's optimus v3 hand patent just dropped → tendon driven → actuators in the forearm → cables routed through the wrist like human anatomy → 4 degrees of freedom per finger and 2 in the wrist advanced cable routing to minimize friction and crosstalk during movement they're not building a gripper instead rebuilding the human hand with motors and cables instead of muscle and tendon musk called “the hand the hardest engineering problem in optimus” afterall nature has perfected it and we can inherit the knowledge from it these patent shows why: dexterity requires mimicking biology not replacing it with servos

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Hands full of dexterity! 🪬 It is well known that agile, versatile hands for robots are one of the Holy Grails in robotics today. Grippers and robot hands are often underestimated, and they are the actuators behind correct and accurate picking, or placing. This robotic hand was created at the Korea University of Technology and Education. 🇰🇷 The 5-finger, 12-DoF (degrees of freedom) robotic hand features 3-DoF each for the thumb, index, and middle fingers, while the ring and little fingers share a combined 3 DoF. It uses BLDC motors with ball-screw actuators and includes a clutch mechanism to absorb impacts and prevent overload. Now, a challenge for you - guess the year! Kudos to all gripper/hand-developing companies! WE CAN'T PICK WITHOUT YOU! 🏋🏼 ~~~ ♻️ RT to help 1 robot find a new workplace.

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THE WOVEN ROBOT! Wow! The woven robot hand is here and it is absolutely game-changing. Allonic just braided thousands of tendon-like fibers around a 3D-printed skeleton in minutes. No joints. No screws. No human assembly. Pure biomimetic tissue that flexes, grips, and lasts like biology itself. This isn’t incremental. This is the breakthrough that collapses robot hand costs from $30,000 to pennies. The old world of expensive, fragile robotic limbs is over. Now humanoid robots can build more of themselves scalable, replicable, anywhere. Robots building Robots building Robots, yeah you get it. In your freaking garage! Massive opportunities are about to explode as work as we know it fades. Rent one, have it build your fleet, send it back, repeat. Thousands if you want. The age of woven machines begins.

THE WOVEN ROBOT! Wow! The woven robot hand is here and it is absolutely game-changing. Allonic just braided thousands of tendon-like fibers around a 3D-printed skeleton in minutes. No joints. No screws. No human assembly. Pure biomimetic tissue that flexes, grips, and lasts like biology itself. This isn’t incremental. This is the breakthrough that collapses robot hand costs from $30,000 to pennies. The old world of expensive, fragile robotic limbs is over. Now humanoid robots can build more of themselves scalable, replicable, anywhere. Robots building Robots building Robots, yeah you get it. In your freaking garage! Massive opportunities are about to explode as work as we know it fades. Rent one, have it build your fleet, send it back, repeat. Thousands if you want. The age of woven machines begins.

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21,747 views • 5 months ago

How can we build robotic hands with truly superhuman dexterity? Daxo Robotics is developing a unique tendon-driven soft robot hand, which aims to be tougher and more capable than a traditional humanoid hand. Each finger consists of many different tendons, which act in concert to move or manipulate. This is a special episode of RoboPapers where, instead of talking about a scientific paper, we talk to Tom Zhang, founder of Daxo Robotics, in order to learn both about his background and about how this one-of-a-kind robot hand design works. Watch Episode #40 of RoboPapers with Michael Cho - Rbt/Acc and Chris Paxton now!

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16,500 views • 10 months ago

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Milind S

429,370 views • 20 days ago

Open-source dexterous hands with fingertip sensors! 🪬 ORCA Dexterity just released three dexterous hand models. Their mission: is to democratize robotic hand dexterity. They're sharing progress on exceptional, low-cost hardware and a software layer from low-level control to robotic hand learning. This is the open-source approach to dexterous manipulation. It has 83 taxels per finger with 0.1 N force detection which pretty is impressive for an open-source design. Tactile sensing is critical for dexterous manipulation, knowing contact forces enables gentle grasping, slip detection, and force-controlled assembly. Also 700g weight for the lite version makes it practical for mounting on robot arms without exceeding payload limits. Lower weight means faster movements and lower torque requirements. Open hardware accelerates robotics by letting researchers and builders modify designs for their specific needs without starting from scratch! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Open-source dexterous hands with fingertip sensors! 🪬 ORCA Dexterity just released three dexterous hand models. Their mission: is to democratize robotic hand dexterity. They're sharing progress on exceptional, low-cost hardware and a software layer from low-level control to robotic hand learning. This is the open-source approach to dexterous manipulation. It has 83 taxels per finger with 0.1 N force detection which pretty is impressive for an open-source design. Tactile sensing is critical for dexterous manipulation, knowing contact forces enables gentle grasping, slip detection, and force-controlled assembly. Also 700g weight for the lite version makes it practical for mounting on robot arms without exceeding payload limits. Lower weight means faster movements and lower torque requirements. Open hardware accelerates robotics by letting researchers and builders modify designs for their specific needs without starting from scratch! ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Lukas Ziegler

38,094 views • 5 months ago

We are releasing Genamon, an open source project that shows how to make a Generative AI driven game in Unity with these features: * ChatGPT makes the creature description * Scenario generates the art from the description * mints the new creature out the @0xPolygonLabs blockchain—so now you could trade it on open exchanges * all the cloud-based services use Beamable to define content, store inventory, and run microservices to operative generative and blockchain links from the cloud Source code showing how to do all of the above is right here: #generativeai #ai #artificialintelligence #blockchain #unity #gpt

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97,036 views • 3 years ago

MIT engineers built an AI wristband that controls robots by reading your hand muscles. It works by using an ultrasound to capture images of the muscles and tendons in your wrist. An AI algorithm then translates those images into the exact position of all 5 fingers, tracking 22 different ways your hand can bend, twist, and extend. In demos, wearers directed a robotic hand to play piano just by moving their own fingers. To put the complexity in perspective, it takes: > 34 muscles > 27 joints > 100+ tendons ...Just to scroll your phone This device captures it all from a band the size of a smartwatch. They tested across 8 volunteers with different hand sizes, tracking everything from sign language letters to holding scissors. The team is now collecting data from hundreds more users to train robots in surgical procedures. Something like this could one day become the universal remote for robots and virtual worlds, and we're way closer than most people expect.

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Rowan Cheung

27,999 views • 4 months ago