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Servo-driven hand design combines rigid parts with flexible fingertips
A project adapts the open-source HRI Hand design into a six-degree-of-freedom robotic hand driven by servo motors. It pairs a rigid PLA structure with flexible TPU fingertips and provides editable design files for customization.
Source · Reddit r/roboticsThe design gives robotics builders a customizable platform for grasping experiments.
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