Video: Multi-fingered robotic hands
The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR has a long tradition in developing multi-fingered hands, creating novel mechatronic concepts as well as autonomous grasping and manipulation capabilities. The range of hands spans from Rotex, a first two-fingered gripper for space applications, to the highly anthropomorphic Awiwi Hand and variable stiffness end effectors. This video summarises the developments of DLR in this field over the past 30 years, starting with the Rotex experiment in 1993, and going through the DLR Hand 1, Hand 2, Spacehand, Awiwi hand, and the most recent developments in variable stiffness grippers with the CLASH hand and the hybrid compliant gripper HCG. Those hands have been developed to be reliable and robust while providing the necessary capabilities and performance, and have been used in different applications ranging from service, assistive and logistic robotics, working in humanoid, space and industrial robots. Keeping the requirements of the hands in sync with the maturity of grasping abilities is the key to develop robots that can manipulate objects like the human archetype, and DLR keeps leading and pushing the boundaries of the technological development in this field.
Video: Multi-fingered robotic hands
Video: Multi-fingered robotic hands
The Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics at DLR has a long tradition in developing multi-fingered hands, creating novel mechatronic concepts as well as autonomous grasping and manipulation capabilities. The range of hands spans from Rotex, a first two-fingered gripper for space applications, to the highly anthropomorphic Awiwi Hand and variable stiffness end effectors. This video summarises the developments of DLR in this field over the past 30 years, starting with the Rotex experiment in 1993, and going through the DLR Hand 1, Hand 2, Spacehand, Awiwi hand, and the most recent developments in variable stiffness grippers with the CLASH hand and the hybrid compliant gripper HCG. Those hands have been developed to be reliable and robust while providing the necessary capabilities and performance, and have been used in different applications ranging from service, assistive and logistic robotics, working in humanoid, space and industrial robots. Keeping the requirements of the hands in sync with the maturity of grasping abilities is the key to develop robots that can manipulate objects like the human archetype, and DLR keeps leading and pushing the boundaries of the technological development in this field.
Credit: DLR (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
Duration:00:04:01