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Meet Rotograb, Combining Biomimetic Hands with Industrial Grippers using a Rotating Thumb

Watch this video to learn more about Rotograb, a robotic hand that merges the dexterity of human hands with the strength and efficiency of industrial grippers. It was developed by students during "Real World Robotics," a master course at ETH Zurich.

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    00:00:06 we present Roto grab a tendon actuated robotic hand with a rotating thumb for ambidexterity and rolling contact joints for simplified kinematics rotor grab aims to combine the dexterity of human hands with the efficiency of industrial grippers rotor grab can morph into a left or a right hand in a middle position the thumb

    00:00:29 imitates a robotic Ripper for powerful grasps we trained the reinforcement policy to roll a ball autonomously the rotating thumb also supports inhand manipulation we demonstrate different grass types with various objects from the ycb data set in future work we will Design Slimmer fingers add adduction and abduction and combine the hardware with

    00:00:55 Advanced control and machine learning approaches