Robot hands

Our experience in developing, building and using dexterous robot hands reaches back to 1993. Our work scope covers all areas from multisensory mechatronic hand design up to control of the hands including telemanipulation, autonomous grasping and manipulation. As example the DLR Hand II basing on four identical fingers was rated as one of the most advanced and complex artificial hands in the world at it is introducing in the year 2001. It is the base for the DLR Hit Hand I and II. In the year 2008 we introduced the DLR Hand Arm System David - it is still the most complex mechatronic hand with 38 motors and 19 degree of freedoms in the world. With it size and performance approaching the human archetype it is unique. It mirrors our experience with tendon driven passive compliance systems. Our last development is the space hand called DEXHAND. It combines the modular hand concept of DLR Hand II with tendon driven fingers to reach fingers sizes of Astronaut gloves and still has the same active fingertip force as DLR Hand II.

	CLASH CLASH was designed during the EU project Soma in order to grasp safely and reliably fruits and vegetables. It is a compliant, yet low-cost hand.
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	David's hand Robot hands are normally first in contact with the environment and should withstand hard contacts. Variable compliance systems as realized in Hand-Arm-System can handle impacts and store energy for periods of time.
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	DEXHAND The experiences of the DLR Hand II and David allowed us to develop a space qualified Hand for the ESA. Built to withstand the harsh environment in space it could help to repair defect satellites.
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	Hand II DLR Hand II is a reliable, flexible and powerful multisensory hand – on Rollin Justin – combined with the lightweight arms it is an excellent platform for two hand manipulation.
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	DLR/Hit Hand II The DLR-HIT Hand II is used as a tool on Space Justin for telemanipulation. The human operator can perform a lot of manipulation task with this robot hand. To support the operator new methods of shared autonomy are proved.
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	HCG HCG is the hybrid two-finger evolution of CLASH. Interchangeable suction cups and an interchangeable fingertip allow a greater number of different objects to be gripped more easily.
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	Spacehand The Spacehand is a space qualified robotic hand, designed for long term operation in Geosynchronous Orbit. It is the further development of the DLR DEXHAND. The Spacehand is currently part of the Phoenix mission led by the DARPA and targets a flight in the vicinity of 2020.
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