Dexterous hands
High degree-of-freedom robotic hands designed for complex grasping and object manipulation. Every Robotics Weekly story on dexterous hands, newest first. 4 stories since September 2026.
- EigenDEXplore explores a 20-DOF hand like a human hand
Harsh Gupta swaps per-joint random noise for coordinated patterns learned from human hands, and Jeannette Bohg and Shuran Song both amplified it.
- Researchers pick apart Atlas's new 13-DOF hands
Chris Paxton says the fingers are bigger than a human's and there is one fewer of them, and Yifan Hou says you could not puppet these moves by hand.
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- Adcock calls Figure's first tendon-driven hand a mistake
Figure's CEO says the company copied the human forearm, then backed out of it.
- Chestnut pairs an 18-DOF hand with a matching capture rig
The wearable exoskeleton logs per-joint angles to 0.1 degrees, so human data lands in the same action space as the robot hand.
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