Handroid
1 000 USD
Handroid
Handroid is a 3D-printed, transformable desktop robot from UNC Chapel Hill and Stanford that works as both a dexterous hand and a small humanoid. With 27 DoF in a 0.33 m, 2.05 kg body, it handles manipulation, walking and combined tasks.
Hand Score
7
Specifications and details:
| Availability | Prototype |
|---|---|
| Degrees of freedom, hands | 27 |
| Strength [kg] | 0.6 |
| Weight [kg] | 2.05 |
| Size | 330 m |
| Number of fingers | 5 |
| Tactile/Force Sensors | Joint position feedback from its actuators and an integrated control board for power, sensing and status |
| Motor tech | Compact modular actuators reused across fingers, limbs and base |
| Main structural material | Fully 3D-printed plastic |
| Manufacturer | Handroid |
| Nationality | US |
| Website | https://handroid.org/ |
Description
Handroid is a transformable desktop robot that works as both a dexterous hand and a small humanoid. Researchers from UNC Chapel Hill and Stanford University, including robotics experts C. Karen Liu and Shuran Song, developed it. Most robots have a fixed body shape that limits what they can do. In contrast, Handroid reuses the same compact modules as fingers, arms, legs or base motors. As a result, it acts as a hand when a task needs manipulation and as a humanoid when it needs to move.
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As a hand, Handroid can pour water, stack cups, pick up paper and even grasp a basketball. In addition, it can turn a cube in its fingers using a skill learned in simulation. As a humanoid, it squats, walks forward and backward, turns, and even does push-ups and pull-ups. Moreover, it can switch between both forms during a single, longer task. The team made it fully 3D-printed and shares its design files and parts list. Therefore, it gives researchers an accessible platform for studying both dexterous manipulation and humanoid movement.
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Website: https://handroid.org/
