Seed Robotics
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About Seed Robotics
Seed Robotics develops anthropomorphic robot hands, compact manipulators and tactile force sensors for research and humanoid platforms. The adult-sized RH8D hand has 19 degrees of freedom, eight internal smart actuators, an opposable thumb and a spherical wrist. Its underactuated three-segment fingers conform to object shapes while reporting actuator position, speed, current, temperature and load state.
RH5D and RH7D provide smaller hand configurations, while RH4D and RH2D address simpler manipulation tasks. Optional FTS sensors measure fingertip contact force at one-millinewton resolution; the three-axis version also captures shear. RH8D includes a palm time-of-flight distance sensor and can add capacitive touch areas for interaction studies. Developers control the products through ROS packages, Python, serial protocols or USB configuration, with URDF and CAD resources available for simulation and integration. Seed sells left- and right-hand variants, sensors and mounting hardware directly to universities, laboratories and robot developers.
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Supply chain relationships
- PAL Robotics
Outbound - Manipulation - Seed Robotics RH8D dexterous hand is a configurable end-effector for PAL KANGAROO
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Team
- Marco Prata - Co-founder, Hardware Scientist - Prata is part of the founding technical team behind Seed Robotics' humanoid hand and tactile sensor portfolio.
- Pedro Ramilo - Co-founder, Lead Software Architect - Ramilo is part of the founding technical team behind Seed Robotics' humanoid hand and tactile sensor portfolio.
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- 2025-01-20 - Capability - Seed Robotics documents seed58 RH8D hand-control interface
The documentation covers control of the RH8D robotic hand through the seed58 interface. Seed Robotics includes setup and command guidance for integrators. The page gives robotics developers a software path for operating Seed robotic hand hardware.
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- Dexterous robot hand builder - Peer Group - Canonical exact-product evidence: RH6D Child-size Dexterous Robot Hand. Source: https://www.seedrobotics.com/rh5d-rh7d-childsize-robot-hand