Our experience in developing, building and using dextrous robot hands reaches back to 1993. Our workscope covers all areas from multisensory mechatronic hand design up to control of the hands including telemanipulation, autonomous grasping and manipulation. The experiences gained with the real system result in new requirements for the next generation design steps.

Following our mechatronic design approach the current generation of dextrous robot hands at our lab - DLR Hand II - is a reliable, flexible and powerful multisensory and fully integrated design with a hot pluggable tool retainer and is rated as one of the most advanced and complex artificial hands in the world.