Robotic Dexterous Manipulation Research
Customer: A robotics lab at a top-10 Chinese university
The intelligent bionic five-finger dexterous hand serves as a research platform supporting ROS, deep reinforcement learning and teleoperation, enabling top-conference publications.
Customer Challenges
Robotic dexterous manipulation is a frontier direction in robotics, requiring a high-DoF dexterous hand as a research platform. Imported dexterous hands are expensive (hundreds of thousands RMB each) with difficult after-sales and technical support, while mature commercial domestic options are scarce. The university lab needed a cost-effective dexterous hand with open interfaces, ROS support and a complete SDK for research into dexterous manipulation, reinforcement learning and hand-eye coordination.
Open Interfaces
Research requires open control interfaces and an SDK to access low-level sensor data and send low-level control commands.
ROS Support
Robotics research broadly uses ROS; native ROS1/ROS2 support with URDF and simulation models is required.
High Degrees of Freedom
A five-finger hand with enough DoF to achieve human-hand-level dexterous manipulation is required.
Teaching Support
Beyond hardware, thorough documentation, sample code and teaching resources are needed for students to get started quickly.
Jodell Solution
Jodell supplied the research edition of its intelligent bionic five-finger dexterous hand: 1) 12 active DoF in an anthropomorphic structure, each finger integrating position and force sensors; 2) Fully open SDK in C++/Python, exposing all sensor data and position/force control commands; 3) Native ROS1 Noetic and ROS2 Foxy/Humble support, with URDF, MoveIt config packages and Gazebo simulation models; 4) Detailed development docs, API manual and sample code from basic control to reinforcement-learning training; 5) Supports teleoperation, hybrid force/position control and impedance control; 6) A dedicated research technical-support group for rapid response to research questions.
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Customer Value
"The Jodell dexterous hand is the best-value and best-supported commercial dexterous hand we have used. The SDK is highly open, ROS support is thorough, documentation is detailed, and students get started on experiments quickly. Technical support responds the same day — ideal for research use."
Professor, Robotics Lab, a University
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