An Affordable, Adaptable, Resilient, Robust Robotic Hand

The ARMH track of DARPA s Autonomous Robotic Manipulation (ARM) program focuses on development of robust, lowcost and dexterous robotic hand hardware. DARPA funded performers to design and build hand mechanisms that could replace the clawlike hands currently used on robots with hands incorporating 34 fingers and useable palms. The teams successfully produced hands that can be manufactured for as little as 3, 000 per unit (in batches of 1, 000 or more), down from the 50, 000 cost of current technology. Th