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ORCA Dexterity launches OrcaHand, OrcaHand Lite, and OrcaHand Touch

Mar 15, 2026 · Product Launch · ORCA Dexterity · End Effectors

  • ORCA Dexterity announced three open-source robotic hands: OrcaHand, OrcaHand Lite, and OrcaHand Touch
  • The company described OrcaHand Lite as a 9-DoF hand for grasping and demos
  • The company described OrcaHand as the redesigned successor to orca v1
  • The company described OrcaHand Touch as a tactile variant with up to 83 taxels per finger and force detection as low as 0.1 N

ORCA Dexterity develops open-source anthropomorphic robotic hands for dexterous manipulation research. The company focuses on low-cost, reproducible hand hardware plus the surrounding software stack for control, teleoperation, and robotic hand learning. Its current lineup includes the standard OrcaHand and the tactile-sensing OrcaHand Touch, both built around the same core mechanical platform.

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End Effectors
Event type
Product Launch
Geography
Zurich · Switzerland