Boston Dynamics shows a humanoid hand with four fingers, 13 actuators
The company explains why its new robot hand drops the pinky, and how the design aims at mass manufacturing.
Boston Dynamics has built a new hand for its humanoid robot. It has four fingers, not five, which keeps it simpler and sturdier. The company wants to build many of them.
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Hands decide what a humanoid robot can pick up. A simpler design may be easier to build in large numbers.
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- The hand has four fingers and 13 degrees of freedom, with direct actuation.
- Boston Dynamics dropped the pinky and made the gripper smaller.
- A two-thumb design was considered and rejected as too complex and costly.
- All 13 actuators are the same and fully enclosed, and cables do not cross joints.
- The hand is used at company headquarters but is not yet on the whole robot fleet.
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