ORCA Dexterity
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About ORCA Dexterity
ORCA Dexterity’s core product is a tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with 17 independently actuated degrees of freedom. The platform keeps motors out of the fingers, uses poppable joints to limit damage and provides open CAD, control software, bills of materials and assembly guidance.
Three configurations range from a nine-DoF Lite model to a tactile version with 351 taxels. The hand mounts through a standard robot-arm flange, runs independently over USB and is available either assembled or as a buildable research system for imitation learning, teleoperation and sim-to-real control.
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Team
- Clemens Christoph - Co-Founder
Research
- ORCA hand paper is released on arXiv
2025-04-05 - Research Publication - The ORCA hand paper was submitted to arXiv on April 5, 2025 The paper presents the ORCA hand as an open-source 17-DoF tendon-driven anthropomorphic robotic hand The paper reports integrated tactile sensing, sub-8-hour assembly, and material cost below 2000 CHF
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- 2025-04-05 - Research Publication - ORCA hand paper is released on arXiv
The ORCA hand paper was submitted to arXiv on April 5, 2025 The paper presents the ORCA hand as an open-source 17-DoF tendon-driven anthropomorphic robotic hand The paper reports integrated tactile sensing, sub-8-hour assembly, and material cost below 2000 CHF
Source - 2025-04-01 - Product Launch - ETH Zurich launches open-source ORCA Hand v1
• ETH Zurich introduced the ORCA Hand v1, a 17-degree-of-freedom, tendon-driven robotic hand with integrated tactile sensors. • The hand can be fully assembled in less than eight hours at a material cost below 2,000 CHF. • It successfully performed over 10,000 continuous operation cycles, equivalent to approximately 20 hours, without hardware failure.
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- Dexterous robot hand builder - Peer Group - Canonical exact-product evidence: orcahand. Source: https://www.orcahand.com/hardware