OrcaHand launches a $1,700 open-source robotic hand, but MyoLab.ai's Vikash Kumar warns tendon-driven designs remain unreliable

find all STLs on GitHub http://github.com/orcahand/orcahand_hardware for the • orcahand Touch (17 DOF + tactile sensing channels) • orcahand v2 (17 DOF)

@orcahand *accessible to everyone (who could afford a $1,700 hand)🫠

want to skip assembly and start training your policies today? → get a fully assembled and tested orcahand, starting at $3,500 on http://orcahand.com/shop

watch the 1.5 h full assembly video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgIz7HiyaoU

telop or train orcahand policies in 10 lines of code with http://github.com/orcahand/orca_core, Thanks to @_fracapuano <3

@orcahand time estimate until orcas can assemble orcas themselves?

@orcahand Kudos to the team for making this open source!

Tendon-driven designs with remote actuation are one of the strongest approaches for dexterous hands for 3 key reasons:

@burnerDevAcct give us 1-2 years

@iamRezaSayar you can replace the motors with even cheaper ones :)

@WendeWim well, am I not intuitive enough?

@orcahand crazy how cheap dexterity has become

@orcahand damn i wish i had a an assembly video like this for the first hand i assembled

@orcahand When will we see a video with the Orca hand building itself? I suspect not too long.

@clemens_chr it will only get better

@orcahand i appreciate you but i need this to be $50 to $100 max

@iamRezaSayar @orcahand *everyone who can can afford a laptop i guess :/

@orcahand “Susan Calvin” would like to know your location.

@orcahand I've got some micro servos lying around 👀

@orcahand 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 thank you brothers n sisters #OpenSourceTheWorld

@orcahand this is so sic fr!