ETH Zurich launches open-source ORCA Hand v1
Evidence notes
- • 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.
Company context
ORCA Dexterity develops open-source anthropomorphic robotic hands for dexterous manipulation research. The company focuses on low-cost, reproducible hand hardware plus the surrounding software stack for control, teleoperation, and robotic hand learning. Its current lineup includes the standard OrcaHand and the tactile-sensing OrcaHand Touch, both built around the same core mechanical platform.