Facts

• Company: qbrobotics
• Product type: Robotic Hand
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Compliant Soft Robotic Hand
• Website: https://qbrobotics.com/product/qb-softhand-2-research/

Profile sections

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

Summary

qb SoftHand2 Research is qbrobotics research-grade soft robotic hand for adaptive manipulation.

Overview

qb SoftHand2 Research is qbrobotics research-grade soft robotic hand for adaptive manipulation.

Market context

Compliant research hand with two synergies and two motors for adaptive grasping and in-hand manipulation.

• Target environment: Research robotics, collaborative robots and safe-contact manipulation
• Workflow context: Adaptive grasping, in-hand manipulation, pick-and-place research and soft end-effector integration
• Customer context: Labs and integrators that prefer compliant grasping over a rigid finger architecture.
• Deployment model: Commercial product page with research positioning.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial/research product page; system package should be verified with qbrobotics.
• Adoption constraints: Best fit depends on grasp requirements, payload, control needs and whether passive compliance is desirable.
• Adjacent products: qb SoftHand Research, qb SoftHand Industry, IH2 Azzurra, SCHUNK SVH, RealHand L6

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Adaptive grasping, in-hand manipulation, pick-and-place research and soft end-effector integration

Capability

compliant soft robotic hand

Deployment environment

Research robotics, collaborative robots and safe-contact manipulation

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Adaptive grasping, in-hand manipulation, pick-and-place research and soft end-effector integration
• Capability: compliant soft robotic hand
• Deployment environment: Research robotics, collaborative robots and safe-contact manipulation

Specifications

• Degrees Of Freedom: 19 anthropomorphic DoF DoF
• Actuation: Two synergies, two motors
• Joints: Dislocatable, self-healing finger joints
• Nominal Payload Pinch: 2 kg kg
• Nominal Payload Grasp: 3 kg kg
• Full Closing Time: 1 s s
• Communication: USB, RS485
• Software: ROS and ROS2 compatible
• Weight: 0.94 kg kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Soft robotic hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation
• Capability: Underactuated grasping, Compliant grasping, Robotic Grasping
• Stack Layer: Manipulation Layer

Timeline / Research

• 2026-04-22 - Research Publication - qb SoftHand2 kinematic-model paper implements a collision-aware CoppeliaSim model - The paper presents a collision-aware kinematic model of the qb SoftHand 2 for CoppeliaSim simulatio…

Comparable Systems

• qb SoftHand Research - qbrobotics - Robotic Hand
• qb SoftHand Industry - qbrobotics - Robotic Hand
• RH6D Child-size Dexterous Robot Hand - Seed Robotics - Robotic Hand
• IH2 Azzurra - Prensilia - Robotic Hand
• OpenDroids DH116 - OpenDroids - Robotic Hand
• DG-5F-S - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• Xynova Flex 1 - Xynova - Hand
• Mia Hand - Prensilia - Robotic Hand