RUKA-v2 Context

Market context

Open-source tendon-driven hand with wrist and finger abduction/adduction for robot learning.

  • Target environment: Robot-learning labs, teleoperation research and humanoid manipulation research
  • Workflow context: Open hardware dexterous manipulation with wrist motion and richer human-like hand kinematics
  • Customer context: Researchers who care about reproducible hand design and human-demonstration transfer.
  • Deployment model: Research project hand for open robotics manipulation experiments rather than a mass-market commercial product.
  • Commercial maturity: Open-source research platform page.
  • Adoption constraints: Research hand; build, durability and support depend on local fabrication and project resources.
  • Adjacent products: LEAP Hand, Aero Hand Open, Amazing Hand, ORCA Hand

Specifications

  • Operating Characteristics: Static suspended-load tests: non-thumb DIP/PIP 1200 g for 15 s; MCP 780 g for 15 s; adduction 150 g for 15 s; thumb 835 g for 20 s; wrist pronation/supination 1215 g for 20 s; wrist…
  • Architecture: Tendon-driven humanoid hand
  • Openness: Fully open sourced
  • Features: wrist: Decoupled 2-DoF parallel wrist; material cost: Under US$2,000
  • Finger Motion: Finger abduction/adduction added in RUKA-v2
  • Degrees Of Freedom: 16 finger DoF plus 2-DoF wrist

Comparable Systems

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