Shadow Dexterous Hand Lite
Overview
The new Shadow Hand Lite puts the full dexterity of the Shadow Hand design into a smaller, lighter, and cheaper package. By removing a finger and the wrist, and shrinking the forearm, Shadow’s engineers have produced a compact yet highly capable dexterous manipulator for the wider world. This new Hand has been developed to bring dexterity and manipulation to areas where five-fingered motion is not needed, but the flexibility and dexterity of the human hand is desired.
Features
13 Degrees of Freedom across 16 Joints:
Independent control of each finger for high dexterity
3 Fingers: each with 3 Degrees of Freedom (DoF)
Thumb: 4 DoF
(No wrist or little finger)
Weight: 2.4 Kg, Payload 4 Kg.
10N force at the finger tips makes Hand-Lite able to handle a wide range of objects
Compact:
Smaller and lighter than the Shadow Dexterous Hand – Fits a wider range of platforms
EtherCAT Communications:
100Mbps bus for fast data sampling and control loops
ROS:
Fully supported in ROS – The Robot Operating System
Sensors:
16 joint position sensors, 26 tendon strain gauges, 13 motor current and temperature sensors: plenty of sensor data for multiple configurations and experiments.
Tactile Sensing:
Fingertip single channel analog response sensors included as standard. Hand Lite can be upgraded with a number of other tactile sensor options (e.g. Syntouch’s BioTac®)
Integration:
The lighter Hand Lite can be integrated on a wider variety of robot arms. Mounting plates for attachment are included.