DH11 Context

Market context

PUDU DH11 is Pudu Robotics' 11-DoF five-finger dexterous hand for semi-humanoid and humanoid robots.

  • Target environment: Humanoid platforms, service robots, manipulation labs and robot arms needing compact human-like end-effectors.
  • Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, tactile interaction, object handling, twisting, pulling, pushing and pressing tasks.
  • Customer context: Robot builders, Pudu X-Lab teams, humanoid integrators and researchers comparing dexterous hand options.
  • Deployment model: Commercially presented manipulation subsystem in Pudu's embodied-AI robot line.
  • Commercial maturity: Public product with official specifications and positioning around tactile sensing and cable-driven structure.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on force output, tactile reliability, finger durability, control interface, size and integration with target robots.
  • Market position: Service-robot OEM moving into reusable humanoid manipulation hardware for its own and potentially adjacent robot systems.
  • Adjacent products: Linker Hand L20, AGILINK OmniHand, DexRobot DexHand021 Pro, Inspire RH56DFX

Audience

Robot OEMs

Workflow

Dexterous grasping, tactile interaction, object handling, twisting, pulling, pushing and pressing tasks.

Deployment environment

Humanoid platforms, service robots, manipulation labs and robot arms needing compact human-like end-effectors.

Specifications

  • Total degrees of freedom: 11
  • Form Type: Five-finger dexterous robotic hand
  • Motor Count: 6 motors
  • Tactile Sensing: 12 tactile sensing areas across palm, four fingers and thumb
  • Max Grip Force: 30 N
  • Max Lifting Load: 40 kg
  • Finger Bend Speed: 150 deg/s
  • Thumb Bend Speed: 191 deg/s
  • Manipulation: Gripping, pinching, twisting, pulling, pushing and pressing
  • Target Applications: Specialized robots, semi-humanoid robots and humanoid robots
  • Weight: 500 g
  • Configuration: 5-fingered anthropomorphic hand
  • Grip Force: ~30 N (finger/palm)
  • Active Dof: 6
  • Passive Dof: 5
  • Tactile Sensing Areas: 12 regions (palm + fingers + thumb)
  • Tactile Resolution: ~1,018 tactile sensor pixels
  • Sensing Type: Visuo-tactile / pressure sensing
  • Durability: Cable-driven structure with steel strands for wear resistance
  • Environmental: Dust + water resistant (not IP-rated publicly)
  • Weight: 0.45

Tags

  • Peer Group: Robot hands, Robot hand components
  • Workflow: End-effector manipulation
  • Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Tactile sensing, Robotic grasping, Tactile feedback, Dexterous manipulation
  • Stack Layer: Manipulation stack

Comparable Systems

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