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Allegro Hand

The Allegro Hand is a low-cost, four-fingered anthropomorphic research hand built by Wonik Robotics of South Korea, and one of the most widely used dexterous hands in academic robot manipulation and robot…

Robot HardwareRobotics Companies

Alt-Bionics

Alt-Bionics, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas company that designs low-cost robotic hands for two related markets: myoelectric prosthetic hands for people with upper-limb amputations, and dexterous robotic end…

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Bionic hand

A bionic hand is a powered artificial hand, usually controlled by the electrical signals of the wearer's own muscles, that restores grasping function to a person who has lost a hand or was born without one.

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Dexterous hand

A dexterous hand (also called a dexterous robotic hand or multi-fingered robot hand) is an anthropomorphic end effector that reproduces the grasping, in-hand manipulation, and tactile perception of the human…

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Inspire Robots

Beijing Inspire-Robots Technology Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 北京因时机器人科技有限公司; trading as Inspire Robots or 因时机器人) is a Chinese robotics-component maker, founded in Beijing in 2016, that produces micro linear servo…

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Matic

Matic is a camera-based robot vacuum and mop made by Matic Robots, Inc., a robotics company in Mountain View, California.

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Mimic Robotics

Mimic Robotics is a Swiss robotics company that develops dexterous robot hands, human demonstration equipment, control software, and learned manipulation policies for industrial work.

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NexArm

NexArm is a desktop robotic arm sold by Hiwonder, a Shenzhen-based maker of educational robotics kits, for imitation-learning, teleoperation and embodied-AI coursework.

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ORCA Hand

ORCA (a backronym for Open-source, Reliable, Cost-effective, Anthropomorphic) is an open-source dexterous hand developed at the Soft Robotics Lab (SRL) of ETH Zurich in Switzerland.

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Open Bionics

Open Bionics is a British medical robotics company, based in Bristol, England, that designs and manufactures low-cost, 3D-printed myoelectric prosthetic arms for people with below-elbow limb difference.

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PSYONIC

PSYONIC is an American bionics company that designs and manufactures the Ability Hand, a multi-articulating myoelectric prosthetic hand that is also sold as a dexterous end effector for robots.

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SO-101

The SO-101 (Standard Open Arm 101) is a low-cost, open-source, 3D-printable robot arm designed by The Robot Studio in collaboration with Hugging Face and published in the TheRobotStudio/SO-ARM100 repository…

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Series Elastic Actuator

A series elastic actuator (SEA) is an actuator with an intentionally compliant element in the mechanical force path between its power source and its load.

Robot Hardware

Tactile sensing

Tactile sensing is the technology that gives robots a sense of touch: the ability to measure the physical contact between a robot and the world, including contact force, pressure distribution, shear, slip…

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Tendon-driven actuation

Tendon-driven actuation (also called cable-driven actuation) is a method of moving a robot's joints by pulling on thin, flexible cables (the "tendons") that run from motors mounted somewhere else on the…

Robot Hardware

TetherIA

The Aero Hand Open is a low-cost, open-source, anthropomorphic robotic hand developed by TetherIA, a Silicon Valley robotics startup, for affordable dexterous manipulation research.

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The Robot Studio

The Robot Studio is an independent open-source robotics design studio run by British roboticist Rob Knight, best known for publishing free, buildable designs for anatomically inspired humanoid robots and their…

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Xynova Flex 1

The Xynova Flex 1 is a high-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven dexterous hand built by Xynova (Chinese: 曦诺未来), a Hangzhou robotics startup founded in December 2024.

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ZWHAND

ZWHAND is the dexterous-hand brand and robotics subsidiary of Shenzhen Zhaowei Machinery and Electronics Co., Ltd. (兆威机电), a listed Chinese precision micro-transmission and micro-motor manufacturer.

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reBot Arm

reBot Arm is an open-hardware desktop robotic-arm series developed by Seeed Studio for robotics education, teleoperation, and embodied-AI experiments.

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