OrcaHand Touch Context

Market context

ORCAHand Touch is the tactile-sensing configuration of ORCAHand for dexterous manipulation research.

  • Target environment: Robotics labs, tactile manipulation research environments and robot-learning testbeds.
  • Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, tactile feedback, teleoperation, imitation learning and sim-to-real manipulation work.
  • Deployment model: Research hand platform integrated with tactile sensing for manipulation experiments.
  • Commercial maturity: Research platform associated with the open-source ORCA hand project.
  • Adoption constraints: Requires tactile sensor integration, arm mounting, control software and experiment-specific manipulation policies.
  • Market position: Tactile dexterous hand configuration for researchers studying contact-rich manipulation and hand-object interaction.
  • Adjacent products: Robotic end effector for tactile manipulation, dexterous grasping and robot-learning experiments.

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Dexterous grasping, tactile feedback, teleoperation, imitation learning and sim-to-real manipulation work.

Deployment environment

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

Specifications

  • Hand Dof: 17
  • actuation and motion control: 16 finger actuators plus 1 wrist actuator
  • Tactile Sensing: 351 taxels across five digits
  • Force Torque Sensing: Hall-effect 6D force/torque per taxel
  • Manipulation: Advanced dexterity research with human-like movement and integrated touch sensing

Tags

  • Peer Group: Robot hands, Dexterous robotic hand, Robot hand components
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation, Dexterous grasping
  • Capability: Robotic grasping, Dexterous manipulation
  • Deployment Environment: Research lab
  • Stack Layer: Robot end-effector, Manipulation stack
  • Commercial Stage: Research platform
  • Market Signal: Supply-chain enabler

Comparable Systems

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