Facts

• Company: TetherIA
• Product type: Robotic Hand
• Status: open_source
• Capability focus: Open Source Low Cost Robotic Hand
• Website: https://tetheria.github.io/aero-hand-open/

Profile sections

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

Summary

TetherIA Aero Hand Open is an open-source tendon-driven robotic hand for embodied-AI research. It uses a lightweight 3D-printable design, seven active degrees of freedom and off-the-shelf electronics to make dexterous manipulation hardware more accessible.

Overview

TetherIA Aero Hand Open is an open-source tendon-driven robotic hand for embodied-AI research. It uses a lightweight 3D-printable design, seven active degrees of freedom and off-the-shelf electronics to make dexterous manipulation hardware more accessible.

Market context

Open-source low-cost tendon-driven hand for dexterous manipulation research.

• Target environment: Research labs, education, low-cost manipulation platforms and prototype humanoids
• Workflow context: Open hardware/software experimentation, teleoperation and policy learning
• Customer context: Researchers and builders who need a reproducible hand platform without buying a closed commercial component.
• Deployment model: Official project page, GitHub, CAD/BOM resources.
• Commercial maturity: Open-source research project with documented build cost, CAD, code and BOM resources.
• Adoption constraints: Build quality depends on printing, assembly, component sourcing and local actuator/control choices.
• Adjacent products: Amazing Hand, LEAP Hand, RUKA-v2, Seed RH6D

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Open hardware/software experimentation, teleoperation and policy learning

Capability

open-source low-cost robotic hand

Deployment environment

Research labs, education, low-cost manipulation platforms and prototype humanoids

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Open hardware/software experimentation, teleoperation and policy learning
• Capability: open-source low-cost robotic hand
• Deployment environment: Research labs, education, low-cost manipulation platforms and prototype humanoids

Specifications

• Joints: 16 joints
• Motors: 7 motors
• Weight: Under 400 g g
• Build Cost: About $314 USD
• Actuation: Tendon-driven actuation
• Thumb: 3 active thumb DoFs DoF
• Backdrivability: Fully backdrivable cable-routing and low-gearing design
• Control Modes: Position control, torque control and inline tendon-force sensing
• Fingertip Force: 10 N per fingertip N
• Reliability Test: 1 million cycle reliability test described by project page cycles

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation
• Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Robotic Grasping
• Stack Layer: Manipulation Layer

Comparable Systems

• OpenDroids DH116 - OpenDroids - Robotic Hand
• DG-5F-S - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• Xynova Flex 1 - Xynova - Hand
• ROBOTIS HX5-D20 - ROBOTIS - Robotic Hand
• DexHand021 MP - DexRobot - Hand
• Mand.ro Mark 7 Hand - Mand.ro - Robotic Hand
• Realhand O6 - RealHand - Dexterous Hand
• DexMano D22-PRO - Botyard Intelligence - Robotic Hand