A dexterous hand that stands up and does pull-ups! 😮‍💨 This is Handroid that is a gripper that can transform into a little humanoid robot. It was developed across teams from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University. It looks like The Thing and I'm totally obsessed with it! 🫳🏼 It's a desktop-scale robot with 27 degrees of freedom that runs as a dexterous hand when manipulation is needed, and as a humanoid when locomotion is the prio. The secret sauce is in the morphology. The finger joints double as humanoid limbs, and the same compact actuator modules get reassigned across fingers, arms, legs and base actuation. P.S. Imagine your grippers being able to come down and start pushing things :D 🔗 Here's the project page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →