Facts

• Company: ORCA Dexterity
• Product type: Hand
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.orcahand.com/hardware/full

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

OrcaHand is ORCA Dexterity open-source dexterous robotic hand platform. It is a tendon-driven, anthropomorphic hand with 17 degrees of freedom and integrated tactile sensing, designed for manipulation research, teleoperation and humanoid robotics development.

Overview

OrcaHand is ORCA Dexterity open-source dexterous robotic hand platform. It is a tendon-driven, anthropomorphic hand with 17 degrees of freedom and integrated tactile sensing, designed for manipulation research, teleoperation and humanoid robotics development.

Market context

ORCAHand is an open-source anthropomorphic robotic hand designed for dexterous manipulation research and task learning.

• Target environment: Robotics labs, manipulation research environments and robot-learning testbeds.
• Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, teleoperation, imitation learning, reinforcement learning and manipulation benchmarking.
• Deployment model: Research hand platform integrated with robotic arms and teleoperation or learning systems.
• Commercial maturity: Research platform with open-source design files, code and documentation released through the ORCA project.
• Adoption constraints: Requires hand assembly or integration, arm mounting, control software and manipulation policy development.
• Market position: Accessible dexterous hand platform focused on reliability, low material cost and rapid assembly for research teams.
• Adjacent products: Robotic end effector for dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing and robot-learning experiments.

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Dexterous grasping, teleoperation, imitation learning, reinforcement learning and manipulation benchmarking.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Robotics labs, manipulation research environments and robot-learning testbeds.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Dexterous grasping, teleoperation, imitation learning, reinforcement learning and manipulation benchmarking.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Robotics labs, manipulation research environments and robot-learning testbeds.

Specifications

• Actuation: Tendon-driven
• Tactile Sensing: Integrated tactile sensors
• Assembly Time: Fully assembled in less than eight hours
• Materials Cost: material cost below 2,000 CHF
• Developer Support: Open-source design for research-community use
• Manipulation: Anthropomorphic dexterous hand for basic manipulation research
• Hand Dof: 17 DoF

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Dexterous robotic hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation, Dexterous grasping
• Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Robotic Grasping, Force control
• Deployment Environment: Research lab
• Stack Layer: Robot end-effector, Manipulation Layer
• Commercial Stage: Research platform
• Market Signal: Supply-chain enabler

Timeline / Research

• 2026-03-22 - Capability - ORCA releases open-source simulation and control tooling for OrcaHand - ORCA's public GitHub organization exposes core repositories for OrcaHand control, simulation, retargeting, and robot desc…
• 2026-03-15 - Product Launch - ORCA Dexterity launches OrcaHand, OrcaHand Lite, and OrcaHand Touch - ORCA Dexterity announced three open-source robotic hands: OrcaHand, OrcaHand Lite, and OrcaHand Touch
• 2025-04-05 - Research Publication - ORCA hand paper is released on arXiv - The ORCA hand paper was submitted to arXiv on April 5, 2025

Comparable Systems

• DG-5F-S - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• Linker Hand L20 - Linkerbot - Hand
• Linker Hand L10 - Linkerbot - Hand
• DG-5F-M - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• OrcaHand Lite - ORCA Dexterity - Hand
• OrcaHand Touch - ORCA Dexterity - Hand
• ROH-AP002 - OYMotion - Hand
• RH56DFX - Inspire Robots - End Effector