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Designing dexterous hands for robots is a very hard problem. Then figuring out how to manufacture them at scale is 100 times harder.
Luis BatalhaLuis Batalha@luismbat· Sep 10, 2025
This is the chaos produced by a triple pendulum with just 3 degrees of freedom. Your hand has 27: 4 per finger + 5 for the thumb + 6 for the wrist Building a robot to conduct this orchestra of joints and tendons to pick up a coin is ... non-trivial.
Luis Batalha
02:49 PM · September 10, 2025 · 14.6M views
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