RUKA-v2 Context

Market context

Open-source tendon-driven hand with wrist and finger abduction/adduction for robot learning.

  • Target environment: Robot-learning labs, teleoperation research and humanoid manipulation research
  • Workflow context: Open hardware dexterous manipulation with wrist motion and richer human-like hand kinematics
  • Customer context: Researchers who care about reproducible hand design and human-demonstration transfer.
  • Deployment model: Research project hand for open robotics manipulation experiments rather than a mass-market commercial product.
  • Commercial maturity: Open-source research platform page.
  • Adoption constraints: Research hand; build, durability and support depend on local fabrication and project resources.
  • Adjacent products: LEAP Hand, Aero Hand Open, Amazing Hand, ORCA Hand

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Open hardware dexterous manipulation with wrist motion and richer human-like hand kinematics

Deployment environment

Robot-learning labs, teleoperation research and humanoid manipulation research

Specifications

  • Architecture: Tendon-driven humanoid hand
  • Openness: Fully open sourced
  • Wrist: Decoupled 2-DoF parallel wrist
  • Finger Motion: Finger abduction/adduction added in RUKA-v2
  • Degrees Of Freedom: 16 finger DoF plus 2-DoF wrist
  • Material Cost: Under US$2,000

Tags

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

Comparable Systems

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