ORCA Dexterity Timeline

Events

• 2026-03-22 - Product Launch - ORCA releases open-source simulation and control tooling for OrcaHand - ORCA's public GitHub organization exposes core repositories for OrcaHand control, simulation, retargeting, and robot description files Public repositories include orca_core, orca_sim, orcahand_description, and orca_retargeter Repository activity shows active… - source: github.com
• 2026-03-15 - Product Launch - ORCA Dexterity launches OrcaHand, OrcaHand Lite, and OrcaHand Touch - 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 - source: linkedin.com
• 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: arxiv.org
• 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… - source: srl.ethz.ch