Teaching a robotic hand to walk on its fingertips, no robot arm required
Scobleizer · x · 2026-09-16
A researcher demonstrated "Fingers as Legs": teaching a robotic hand to walk on its fingertips so it can reach the work site without a robot arm, then use the same fingers to perform the task — inverting the usual paradigm where the arm carries the hand. A demo video and paper are attached.
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