ORCA Hand 17-DOF Tendon-Driven Robotic Hand

A printable, human-sized dexterous hand whose 16 finger servos pull fishing-line tendons from a forearm tower · 14 parts · 6 steps · By ORCA Dexterity, Inc. (originally ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Lab)

Gather the parts
Print the hand and skins
Set up the servos
Assemble fingers, carpals and tower
Calibrate and tension the tendons
Control the hand

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ORCA Hand 17-DOF Tendon-Driven Robotic Hand

By ORCA Dexterity, Inc. (originally ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Lab) · Example build · 7 views · 0 remixes

A printable, human-sized dexterous hand whose 16 finger servos pull fishing-line tendons from a forearm tower

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Estimated parts cost

6 of 14 parts priced

Difficulty

Difficult

Build time

Under 8 hours of assembly (paper)

Parts

14 parts · 141 pcs

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