Humanoid hands are the hardest problem: Shadow, Mimic and PSYONIC specialize in them
xmercury_one · x · 2026-10-12
Elon Musk notes the hand is one of the hardest problems for humanoids — and the most important part. Several companies focus on exactly that: Shadow Robot with a 24-DoF hand, Mimic Robotics with a 16-DoF tendon-driven hand, and PSYONIC with the Ability Hand.
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