Adcock: Figure's first hand was the wrong choice
Brett Adcock says the tendon-driven hand Figure started with "ended up becoming the wrong engineering choice," and he is now all in on the high-joint-count F.04 hands. Plus a tactile sensor you can print for five dollars.
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Adcock calls Figure's first tendon-driven hand the wrong engineering choice
Brett Adcock says Figure walked away from its first-generation tendon-driven hand (motors in the forearm pulling cables to the fingers) and is now backing the high degree-of-freedom F.04 hands. In a clip posted by @sourceryy, he says the next-generation hand has as many joints as a human hand and calls hands the starting point for physical AGI.
It ended up becoming the wrong engineering choice.
NYU's eFlesh is a tactile sensor you 3D print for five dollars
Lukas Ziegler flagged eFlesh, an open-source magnetic touch sensor from NYU that needs only a hobbyist 3D printer, under five dollars of magnets, a CAD model and a magnetometer board. The writeup reports slip detection on unseen objects at 95% accuracy, visual-tactile policies beating vision-only by 40%, and 90% success on plug insertion and credit card swiping.