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Hauptverfasser: Lin, Leo, Patel, Shivansh, Moon, Jay, Lazebnik, Svetlana, Jain, Unnat
Format: Preprint
Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12120
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author Lin, Leo
Patel, Shivansh
Moon, Jay
Lazebnik, Svetlana
Jain, Unnat
author_facet Lin, Leo
Patel, Shivansh
Moon, Jay
Lazebnik, Svetlana
Jain, Unnat
contents We introduce CRAFT hand, a tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with hybrid hard-soft compliance for contact-rich manipulation. The design is based on a simple idea: contact is not uniform across the hand. Impacts concentrate at joints, while links carry most of the load. CRAFT places soft material at joints and keeps links rigid, and uses rollingcontact joint surfaces to keep flexion on repeatable motion paths. Fifteen motors mounted on the fingers drive the hand through tendons, keeping the form factor compact and the fingers light. In structural tests, CRAFT improves strength and endurance while maintaining comparable repeatability. In teleoperation, CRAFT improves handling of fragile and low-friction items, and the hand covers 33/33 grasps in the Feix taxonomy. The full design costs under $600 and will be released open-source with visionbased teleoperation and simulation integration. Project page: http://craft-hand.github.io/
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spellingShingle CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance
Lin, Leo
Patel, Shivansh
Moon, Jay
Lazebnik, Svetlana
Jain, Unnat
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce CRAFT hand, a tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with hybrid hard-soft compliance for contact-rich manipulation. The design is based on a simple idea: contact is not uniform across the hand. Impacts concentrate at joints, while links carry most of the load. CRAFT places soft material at joints and keeps links rigid, and uses rollingcontact joint surfaces to keep flexion on repeatable motion paths. Fifteen motors mounted on the fingers drive the hand through tendons, keeping the form factor compact and the fingers light. In structural tests, CRAFT improves strength and endurance while maintaining comparable repeatability. In teleoperation, CRAFT improves handling of fragile and low-friction items, and the hand covers 33/33 grasps in the Feix taxonomy. The full design costs under $600 and will be released open-source with visionbased teleoperation and simulation integration. Project page: http://craft-hand.github.io/
title CRAFT: A Tendon-Driven Hand with Hybrid Hard-Soft Compliance
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.12120