Product profile
qb SoftHand Research
qb SoftHand Research is qbrobotics' five-finger anthropomorphic research hand. Its 19 phalanges are driven through a single-motor synergy and underactuated...
Facts
- Company
- qbrobotics
- Product type
- robotic_hand
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- underactuated soft robotic hand
- Website
- https://qbrobotics.com/product/qb-softhand-research/
About qb SoftHand Research
qb SoftHand Research is an anthropomorphic underactuated hand for robotics research and education. A single motor and tendon-driven differential move five fingers and 19 phalanges, allowing the mechanism to adapt mechanically to differently shaped objects.
The 0.77 kg hand provides motor-position and current feedback, USB and RS485 interfaces, ROS compatibility and adapters for several collaborative robot arms. Its published 1.1 kg nominal pinch payload and 62 N pinch force describe the specified configuration.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Robot hand
Core: Underactuated hand
Function: Handle objects
Audience: Researchers
Specifications
- actuation
- One synergy, one motor
- communication
- USB, RS485
- degrees_of_freedom
- 19 anthropomorphic DoF DoF
- full_closing_time
- 1.1 s s
- grasp_force
- 62 N pinch configuration N
- nominal_payload_pinch
- 1.1 kg kg
- software
- ROS and ROS2 compatible
- weight_kg
- 0.77 kg kg
Operations
- Environment
- research_laboratory, education, collaborative_robotics
- Primary user
- research_labs, universities, robot_developers
- Role
- adaptive_grasping, compliant_manipulation
- Interaction model
- robot_end_effector_integration, ros_control
- Product detail
- component, 8a637eabe99c5629f04d6736db0ce1df6de139df719fd3dc221d7367ecdf23ae, verified public-facing prose against first-party exact-product source, underactuated soft robotic hand, research robotics and collaborative manipulation, https://zlsbkmaixmmnjrgpkcyp.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/robotics_assets/products/hand-component-mediafix-canvas-2026-06-01/qb-softhand-research.png, clean_photo_or_studio_fallback, end-effector manipulation, Existing product image is already clean and suit...