Innovation Platform for Robotics Research & Education

The research version targets universities and research users. Differences: 1) Openness: the research version provides lower-level control interfaces and real-time data access, while the industrial version offers application-layer APIs; 2) SDK: the research SDK is more complete with more sample code and documentation; 3) ROS: native ROS1/ROS2 support with full ROS packages; 4) Pricing: discounted rates for education and research users; 5) Technical Support: dedicated research engineering support for development issues; 6) Teaching resources: teaching cases and lab manuals. The hardware is essentially identical with the same reliability.

The full Jodell product line natively supports ROS1 (Noetic) and ROS2 (Foxy/Humble). Installation: 1) Directly via apt: sudo apt install jodell-ros-driver; 2) Or build from source: git clone the repo into catkin_ws/src and run catkin_make. Complete URDF models, MoveIt configuration packages, and Gazebo simulation models let you visualize and simulate in RViz, developing algorithms without real hardware.

The Jodell Bionic Five-Finger Dexterous Hand has 12 active DoF with integrated position and force sensors, supporting leading-edge research such as: 1) Dexterous manipulation — grasping objects of various shapes, rotating objects, using tools; 2) Hand-eye coordination — vision-guided fine manipulation; 3) Reinforcement learning — deep-RL manipulation skill learning; 4) Bionic control — emulating human hand control strategies; 5) Teleoperation — master-slave remote control; 6) Prosthetics — smart prosthetic control research. It is already used in research at Tsinghua, HIT, Zhejiang University, and other institutions.

Yes. Jodell offers complete robotics teaching lab packages: 1) Lab manuals covering 20+ experiments on basic gripper control, force-controlled gripping, vision-guided gripping, and ROS programming; 2) Sample code for Python/C++/ROS; 3) Lecture-ready teaching slides; 4) Integrated lab bench solutions combining robot, vision, and gripper; 5) Instructor training. Multiple universities have built robotics labs with Jodell products.

Yes. Jodell products are designed for teaching ease: 1) Graphical tuning software controls the gripper without coding to understand parameters; 2) A simple Python API gets gripper initialization, open/close, and force-controlled gripping running in about 10 lines; 3) The ROS driver launches with one launch file to show the model in RViz; 4) Beginner-to-advanced tutorials and videos are provided; 5) Technical support groups answer questions anytime. Undergraduates typically complete basic experiments independently within 1-2 weeks.