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Hand Development Robowaifu Technician 07/28/2020 (Tue) 04:43:19 No.4577

Since we have no thread for hands, I'm now opening one. Aside the AI, it might be the most difficult thing to archive. For now, we could at least collect and discuss some ideas about it. There's Will Cogleys channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/WillCogley - he's on his way to build a motor driven biomimetic hand. It's for humans eventually, so not much space for sensors right now, which can't be wired to humans anyways. He knows a lot about hands and we might be able to learn from it, and build something (even much smaller) for our waifus. Redesign: https://youtu.be/-zqZ-izx-7w More: https://youtu.be/3pmj-ESVuoU Finger prototype: https://youtu.be/MxbX9iKGd6w CMC joint: https://youtu.be/DqGq5mnd_n4 I think the thread about sensoric skin >>242 is closely related to this topic, because it will be difficult to build a hand which also has good sensory input. We'll have to come up with some very small GelSight-like sensors. F3 hand (pneumatic) https://youtu.be/JPTnVLJH4SY https://youtu.be/j_8Pvzj-HdQ Festo hand (pneumatic) https://youtu.be/5e0F14IRxVc Thread >>417 is about Prosthetics, especially Open Prosthetics. This can be relevant to some degree. However, the constraints are different. We might have more space in the forearms, but we want marvelous sensors in the hands and have to connect them to the body. The thread about actuators is related: >>406 and the discussion in R&D General starting here >>1627 is a lot about artificial muscles. My own concept in my mind for the most ambitious models so far is the following: We have no space to waste. We might try to use light canals and LEDs inside to indicate bending. We'll probably need to use PCBs for transport of current incl data while acting as part of the bone. We'll probably need connectors between the parts which transport current without bending cables, eg cylinders with layers out of different materials where some of them are conductive. We should try to use Will Cogleys files as foundation, but since we might want to only build the bones out of hard material we might need to do it in metal to go smaller. This metal might be something expensive, like Titanium. We'll need tools for fine mechanics and such skills. I also think air pressure might be usefull to help open the hands fast, of course in combo with strings. I haven't thought about the actuators in the forearms a lot, by now. That's it for now, I'm really curious about the ideas for the premium models, but even more so for the cheap and then maybe even smaller waifus.

Robowaifu Technician 07/28/2020 (Tue) 05:12:27 No.4579

>>4577 Thank you OP, I was starting to wonder when this thread would pop up. I would add that there is another interesting hand with fingertip sensors: Hand in action https://vimeo.com/154571244 Fingertip sensor example https://vimeo.com/155743044 Paper https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~todorov/papers/XuICRA16.pdf This paper has some good information about more human design of an artificial hand and the robot is, in my opinion, one of the best. what I dislike about this model is the bulky actuators it requires, but in reality most of the muscles controlling the hand are in the upper forearm connected to the fingers themselves with tendons. This can be made to look more natural with different actuators, like a hydraulic or pneumatic actuator, but the muscles in the hand which are anchored to the wrist or to other finger bones could prove challenging. Another pretty decent design is this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd9d_BAXWvg which follows a similar idea but is completely hydraulic. A shame that neither of them made their designs public, but there is still a fair amount to be learned from observation.

Robowaifu Technician 07/28/2020 (Tue) 06:35:00 No.4582

Here a example of mistakes to avoid: https://youtu.be/s0LA48Sw62k

Robowaifu Technician 07/29/2020 (Wed) 02:05:00 No.4613

>>4577 Thanks for creating this thread OP. Hands are an important and complex topic actually.

Robowaifu Technician 08/21/2020 (Fri) 15:03:32 No.4817

New Will Cogley video on hands. I had the plan to look up some joints for different part of the Waifu, how they work, differences, ... Didn't know where to start and delayed it. Now he comes along with his new vid and gives me the right direction: https://youtu.be/dWUSH6DR4G8 Search for Condyloid joint, lead me to more, not all related to hands though: https://youtu.be/zHYEhDMV5Bg https://youtu.be/S7nUC__PRFU https://youtu.be/0cYal_hitz4 https://youtu.be/2H10SZHGdvE

Robowaifu Technician 08/28/2020 (Fri) 04:03:25 No.4859

The Making of a 3D-Printed, Cable-Driven, Single-Model, Lightweight Humanoid Robotic Hand >Dexterity robotic hands can (Cummings, 1996) greatly enhance the functionality of humanoid robots, but the making of such hands with not only human-like appearance but also the capability of performing the natural movement of social robots is a challenging problem. The first challenge is to create the hand’s articulated structure and the second challenge is to actuate it to move like a human hand. A robotic hand for humanoid robot should look and behave human like. At the same time, it also needs to be light and cheap for widely used purposes. We start with studying the biomechanical features of a human hand and propose a simplified mechanical model of robotic hands, which can achieve the important local motions of the hand. Then, we use 3D modeling techniques to create a single interlocked hand model that integrates pin and ball joints to our hand model. Compared to other robotic hands, our design saves the time required for assembling and adjusting, which makes our robotic hand ready-to-use right after the 3D printing is completed. Finally, the actuation of the hand is realized by cables and motors. Based on this approach, we have designed a cost-effective, 3D printable, compact, and lightweight robotic hand. Our robotic hand weighs 150 g, has 15 joints, which are similar to a real human hand, and 6 Degree of Freedom (DOFs). It is actuated by only six small size actuators. The wrist connecting part is also integrated into the hand model and could be customized for different robots such as Nadine robot (Magnenat Thalmann et al., 2017). The compact servo bed can be hidden inside the Nadine robot’s sleeve and the whole robotic hand platform will not cause extra load to her arm as the total weight (150 g robotic hand and 162 g artificial skin) is almost the same as her previous unarticulated robotic hand which is 348 g. The paper also shows our test results with and without silicon artificial hand skin, and on Nadine robot. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2017.00065/full

Robowaifu Technician 08/28/2020 (Fri) 09:20:13 No.4863

>>4859 Thanks, Nadine is a horrible looking fembot, but the article on her's and other hand designs is very interesting. I think we will need placeholder hands at the beginning and then we might try different development approaches with different priorities, before we will be able to join all of the traits later in one design: - Aesthetical hands for gestures and human like movement, but weak and without many sensors. - Sensory hands, but less good looking and still weak. - Hands for doing stuff, with some sensors, but probably not good looking, especially not human female alike. Since we all have different priorities, tastes, and financial ressources, the end goal is IMHO going to be that we need to have a lot of options by variety in the designs. For future reference, I'd like to link to a discussion on Sophias hands: >>4826

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 01:22:10 No.4870

>>4863 YW. I agree on both points, and I too found the paper interesting in general. It seemed a decent overview if nothing else. >3 variations of general hand designs Seems like a good breakdown. >Lots of options That's one thing /robowaifu/ has tended to have up till now, numerous different ideas. I'd like artistic expression (eg, dancing etc) for my initial types of robowaifus, so grip strength and rugged utility is less important to me atm. One thing I think unifies the significant majority of us and others is expense. We need to find ways to make robowaifu components very inexpensively. Sophie is a very interesting robowaifu tbh. I wish Anon great prosperity in completing her quickly! :^)

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 04:11:55 No.4875

>>4817 Thanks Anon, finally getting around to watching these joints videos now.

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 05:19:01 No.4876

At the beginning and for cheap versions of the Robowaifu we might need to use the InMoov design. People improving that design a little bit, without going crazy, might then be particularly interesting. Especially if the designs are available: https://youtu.be/CIqzeBxkRws The Raptor Reloaded Prosthetic Hand might also be a cheap starting point: https://youtu.be/ULTyu4ppk-s The other extreme - A very complex design: https://youtu.be/K0RUxY3RKKo Site: https://www.wevolver.com/wevolver.staff/anthropomorphic.robotic.finger/master/blob/Overview.wevolver Ada Hand: https://www.wevolver.com/wevolver.staff/ada.hand/master/tree Humanoid Robotic Hand: https://www.wevolver.com/wevolver.staff/humanoid.robotic.hand/master/tree A page with overview of hand designs (link from the Sophie thread): https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2017.00065/

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 05:26:41 No.4877

>>4876 Thanks. I quite like the integrated design of #2, and am intrigued with the apparent tensegrity-inspired approach of #3. I'm currently working on a very inexpensive tensegrity approach (thanks to /hover/-Anon!) for the long-bones and so my mind is particularly attuned to that area atm.

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 05:29:36 No.4878

>>4877 should've posted this along with.

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 05:32:12 No.4879

>>4878 BTW, please not the quite generous direct 'shaft' of open volume available with this 4-rod tensegrity design. I intend to mount a central tube down this space as a guideway for running Bowden cables out to the extremities all the way from the proximal major ball & socket joints located at the torso.

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 05:33:32 No.4880

>>4879 >please note* (check the shadow directly below the framework)

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 19:49:06 No.4883

The guy improving the InMoov design I mentioned here >>4876 moved on in a similar direction than Will Cogley with his new hand, embedding little motors in the hand, using SLA printed pulleys. https://youtu.be/3DNVadMs5tE Though, it needs to be noted that they are doing it because they might want to build a prothesis, which has other constraints than a robot arm. We should look at it, but also keep in mind that we have other priorities.

Robowaifu Technician 08/29/2020 (Sat) 21:24:06 No.4884

>>4883 That looks like a pretty promising approach actually.

Robowaifu Technician 08/30/2020 (Sun) 10:50:39 No.4885

>>4884 Thinks so too, though we might be able to combine it with Bowden cables and servos in the wrist later on. Just checked, I can turn my similar little motor in both directions if there's no torque applied.

Robowaifu Technician 08/30/2020 (Sun) 15:51:24 No.4887

>>4885 I think I missed description of the motors themselves. Can you fill us in Anon?

Robowaifu Technician 08/30/2020 (Sun) 20:28:38 No.4891

>>4887 Minute 2:34 and min 4. Micro metal geared motors: I've got the one on the pic for idk 1.50-3.50€, I guess around 2€. But I only bought one for testing and don't have the u-shaped one. He talks about SLS printed pulleys, but the one he has, can also be bought on Ali in sets with gears for 2€, some of mine are on the other pic.

Robowaifu Technician 08/30/2020 (Sun) 22:20:13 No.4892

>>4876 >>4863 some guy posted your board on g i'm just driving by here but I'll drop you a hint hyperboloids for the metacarpals

Robowaifu Technician 08/30/2020 (Sun) 23:30:59 No.4893

>>4892 >hyperboloids for the metacarpals heh thanks for the hint, driveby-kun. :^) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperboloid https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metacarpal_bones My presumption is that Driveby-Anon intends us to understand a geometric behavior of the metacarpals. The tendons connect both above and below, and the particular curve they exhibit gives them a leverage advantage during gripping motion, for example.

Robowaifu Technician 08/31/2020 (Mon) 17:06:01 No.4902

>>4892 >>4893 Someone was claiming in this thread on /g/ the human hand was mostly made out of those and this was patented till 2040. Patents need to have a certain amount of innovation, though. Also, I'd need to look into these vids about joints if this true, and then it might still not be the best way.

Robowaifu Technician 08/31/2020 (Mon) 19:19:47 No.4905

>>4902 I see. Hmm, I don't think it's particularly problematic. There's far, far too much prior art in this arena (literally going back for millennia) to be in any way enforceable.

Robowaifu Technician 09/02/2020 (Wed) 15:56:56 No.4945

> Will Cogley Progress intensifies: https://youtu.be/99RzNBQF6g8 It's of course quite to big for now, but I like where this goes. > Skeletal prototype with windows to look into it, to see how well the gears are moving. > MG996R Servos from Tower Pro bought on AliExpress > Ultrahigh molecular weight Polyethylene, PTFE cube Github: https://github.com/ikkalebob/NM-bionic-hand/

Robowaifu Technician 09/02/2020 (Wed) 19:22:42 No.4947

>>4945 Thank you for keeping us updated on his progress. The man is a real talent at this type of engineering and is obviously quite motivated as well. Good stuff, Anon.

Robowaifu Technician 09/05/2020 (Sat) 00:55:57 No.4974

>>4891 Someone having an opinion on which amount of RPM I should pick, when I order some of those motors? I guesstimated for the thumb it might move 2-4cm on the joint, the shaft of the motor has 3mm or so, which makes 30mm per second with 10 RPM, which is 3cm. So I think I'll really stay on the absolute low end of the scale. Any objections?

Robowaifu Technician 09/05/2020 (Sat) 01:07:12 No.4975

>>4974 >So I think I'll really stay on the absolute low end of the scale. Any objections? It's simply a trade-off like all engineering is between velocity and torque. If you need more power, go slower. If you need more speed, expect less rotational force.

Robowaifu Technician 09/05/2020 (Sat) 02:09:17 No.4976

>>4975 Sure, I was already aware of that. Don't want the fingers move to slow, however. Then again, I can replace the motors later anyways, so I probably shouldn't overthink this. I'll take something around 10-15 RPM, but not 5, and not 30.

Robowaifu Technician 09/05/2020 (Sat) 02:25:24 No.4977

>>4976 Sounds good. As always, Test, Iterate, Improve.

Robowaifu Technician 09/07/2020 (Mon) 02:23:47 No.5018

>>4883 There's a new vid of his hand with the microgear motors: https://youtu.be/Zi-s_RQNokw Sadly he emphasizes that he thinks it's only possible to print the parts for the hand with a SLS printer, which is out of reach for most people. He's getting the parts from some paid service bc also hasn't one himself. As inspiration the approach might still be very relevant. I'm saying for a while hands are going to be very difficult.

Robowaifu Technician 09/07/2020 (Mon) 09:19:59 No.5026

5018 >SLS printer A guy built his own? https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-SLS-3D-Printer/ Also, that's a high-end goal to exactly reproduce a prosthetic-capable hand. We'll be able to make due with far less refined designs for our robowaifus for years. It's a good goal to work towards, but we'll be able to create good (enough) hands much sooner.

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 00:29:35 No.5043

>>5026 Fascinating, but it seems to be abandoned. Even with 5x5 cm this would be great, but it would need at least to work with PLA or better Nylon. He used tea with 95% sugar or alternatively Stearin, which is some kind of fat that melts at 48-50C. However, I'm quite sure we'll get around needing some SLS printer for the hands. He used it for potentiometers, same as Will Cogley in his model. These seem to fail after a while anyways, so other sensors might be better. Also, with some little changes it might not be necessary, and resin printers might be good enough, or even FDM and standard parts which we can buy.

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 01:19:32 No.5044

>>5043 Well, maybe someone with some resources can set up a good SLS printer and provide prints as a service bureau. Maybe someone already does this?

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 08:29:01 No.5045

>>5018 Thanks Anon. I like his design in general. Quite simple and to the point. I particularly like how he thought ahead about ease-of-assembly in at least a couple of different points, and overall I think it seems a fairly good design approach for the fingers. Very utilitarian and not too expensive by the looks of it. Did he give any cost estimates for the out-sourced parts printing?

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 09:07:50 No.5046

>>5045 > Cost estimate No, or I haven't seen it yet. Costs might not be the problem, if it's already finished. But for development it might be relevant, especially considering possible additional shipping costs and the delay.

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 09:50:41 No.5047

>>5043 >Also, with some little changes it might not be necessary, and resin printers might be good enough, or even FDM and standard parts which we can buy. Sounds interesting. Have anything specific in mind, Anon?

Robowaifu Technician 09/08/2020 (Tue) 14:04:31 No.5048

>>5047 No, or I don't remember something specific, but we can print small with FDM: https://youtu.be/gN7QMhBzd4E https://youtu.be/LHg9phNSCEY

Robowaifu Technician 09/09/2020 (Wed) 07:52:47 No.5057

>>5048 >0.15mm wow i didn't know there were even nozzles that small, looks almost like resin printing. looks like it takes some mods needed to make it work.

Robowaifu Technician 09/19/2020 (Sat) 03:55:47 No.5208

Chat transcript with Will Cogley: https://hackaday.io/event/171045-animatronics-hack-chat/log/177852-hack-chat-transcript-part-1 https://hackaday.io/event/171045-animatronics-hack-chat/log/177853-hack-chat-transcript-part-2 Some notes: ABS ist better for sliding surfaces than PLA, CircuitPython for microcontrollers, different sensors are discussed e.g. ultrasonic, ... https://www.bendshape.com/ https://singularityhub.com/2019/06/03/these-10-sensor-packed-gloves-could-give-robots-a-sense-of-touch/ His recent video: https://youtu.be/Wywru4K8GVU

Robowaifu Technician 10/10/2020 (Sat) 16:28:27 No.5592

A normal human hand is the ultimate multi-use tool. It isn't that hard to replicate one specific feature of a human hand, what seems impossible is to cram the feature list into the small space of one hand (plus forearm). How about this: Picture an android with two hands that look the same, but are different underneath. The wish list of features is split between the hands in some way (for example, one hand can be strong & the other one precise). As long as both hands working together can achieve what you want them to achieve, this is almost as good as each hand having the full feature set. Heck, when doing this you might find yourself suddenly with some extra space left and throw in a magnet or suction-cup function.

Robowaifu Technician 10/10/2020 (Sat) 20:54:26 No.5599

>>5592 Good idea. Noted, but I hope we can do better. Btw, if no one answers to a posting, it doesn't mean no one is interested in it or won't appreciate it, just that we shouldn't flood the forum with praises to each others ideas.

Robowaifu Technician 10/14/2020 (Wed) 15:24:15 No.5679

potentially-related xposts >>699 >>704 >>705

Robowaifu Technician 11/06/2020 (Fri) 00:39:44 No.6489

Some tangentially related news from japan. It's a kind of hand-holding simulator: https://archive.vn/7c2LR Unfortunately, there's not much info available, apart from a two page pdf written in moonrunes

Robowaifu Technician 11/06/2020 (Fri) 00:53:11 No.6490

>>6489 i can't see it behind cuckflare. mind posting a link and i can see if wayback has it.

Robowaifu Technician 11/06/2020 (Fri) 01:05:26 No.6494

>>6490 https://soranews24.com/2020/11/03/japanese-inventors-create-robot-girlfriend-hand-for-lonely-people-to-hold-and-walk-with%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/

Robowaifu Technician 11/06/2020 (Fri) 02:46:58 No.6497

>>6494 Thanks Anon. Yep they have it. https://web.archive.org/web/20201102173143/https://soranews24.com/2020/11/03/japanese-inventors-create-robot-girlfriend-hand-for-lonely-people-to-hold-and-walk-with%E3%80%90video%E3%80%91/ Seems promising tbh.

Robowaifu Technician 12/10/2020 (Thu) 19:10:41 No.7702

Has anyone here investigated the Shadow Hand very much? Seems interesting and I like the way the 'tendons' actually travel up through the wrist into the hand itself.

Robowaifu Technician 01/27/2021 (Wed) 20:35:46 No.8318

Found this image from a news article promoting a project using a company's elastomeric touch sensors. > I thought the design of the fingers were interesting, if a little overdone. www.extremetech.com/extreme/293610-mit-created-a-robot-that-maps-3d-objects-by-touch

Robowaifu Technician 02/18/2021 (Thu) 13:15:13 No.8632

Parallel Cable driven Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand: https://youtu.be/GzXvqFWgIs4

Robowaifu Technician 02/18/2021 (Thu) 14:20:21 No.8633

>>8632 Wow, thanks Anon! This is exactly the kind of approach that's been swirling around in my head for a few months (though mine have been mostly about the overall armature itself). It's particularly gratifying to see the idea working so well in something so detailed and technical as this human hand mimic. I'd be interested to see some numbers on strength and grip testing with it.

Robowaifu Technician 02/18/2021 (Thu) 21:18:55 No.8637

>>8632 This is too good to leave just on yt.

Robowaifu Enthusiast 02/19/2021 (Fri) 16:48:00 No.8651

>>8637 This looks excellent...but I always have suspicions about actual functionality when they crop so much out of the video and only show the hand lying down - not attached to a moving arm. What about all the servos that presumably drive those cables? That's gotta add considerable weight and size to the end of the arm. Would be nice to see in greater detail.

Robowaifu Technician 02/19/2021 (Fri) 20:31:58 No.8655

>>8651 >Would be nice to see in greater detail. Agreed. I'm too busy to dig around and try to get more details on their project work atm. Hopefully more information will be forthcoming here soon.

Robowaifu Technician 02/20/2021 (Sat) 23:41:09 No.8700

This guy https://youtu.be/qqBjBY4zf8I is still working on his DARA robot. It's a male robot, but might be useful to keep track of it. I mentioned him before in >>5327 bc he has some files on Thingyverse.

Robowaifu Technician 02/20/2021 (Sat) 23:57:11 No.8702

>>8700 Please keep us updated if you find this man makes a nice breakthrough that might help us out here. I like the lateral motion he's able to achieve thus far. Very life-like.

Robowaifu Technician 04/10/2021 (Sat) 03:58:43 No.9690

This hand design by a prosthetic company seems pretty useful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-f0egEgKms They changed the shape of the hand to make it easier to grip objects.

Robowaifu Technician 04/10/2021 (Sat) 04:56:42 No.9699

>>9690 Yes, looks like a decent, reasonably rugged design Anon. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. BTW, anon started a prosthetics thread here as well. Seems on-topic. >>417

Robowaifu Technician 04/23/2021 (Fri) 08:40:31 No.10072

I've been looking for attempts at playing piano with bionic hands. Someone made a rudimentary robot 11 years ago but they barely count as hands since they can only press the white keys. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwuiOwZrzCM The closest thing I could find was this military prosthetic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP677lA_DEA And this robot typing on a keyboard which is pretty cool: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nek_yvvLRdQ Are servos not fast or strong enough to make quick movements or is it more of a control problem? Could larger servos be stored in the chest and operate the hands with cables using pulleys?

Robowaifu Technician 04/23/2021 (Fri) 15:12:54 No.10075

>>10072 Bionic prosthetics normally don't have sensors. For building a robot playing piano you would probably want that. Btw, I just got my heat sensitve plastics for making hands skeletons like therobotstudio did (16€/kg). Here: https://youtu.be/bVDneXZ_YfQ - related (various vids): >>9362 >>9471 Some of the hands related vids: https://youtu.be/kWeJyduvhwA https://youtu.be/CfB8Mrh1dSI https://youtu.be/1PYMT1U8qiM https://youtu.be/tO3B_OyyqmQ https://youtu.be/tZ-ouSmt5gw

Robowaifu Technician 04/24/2021 (Sat) 16:37:34 No.10106

>>10072 >Could larger servos be stored in the chest and operate the hands with cables using pulleys? Not that anon, but you have a sound design idea there Anon. If we can figure out a way to entirely remove the weight and volume of servos out on the arms, then that will help everything move along better for us, physics-wise (and therefore, agility & energy-consumption wise). It will take some creativity to figure out how to do this, but using some form of cable-only approach in all the extremities will pay off in spades for us all.

Robowaifu Technician 05/08/2021 (Sat) 06:29:44 No.10322

>related (>>10179)

Robotic Fingers - Relaxing/Un-gripping SophieDev 06/22/2021 (Tue) 11:15:34 No.10999

A big problem I am having with robotic hands is that the fingers can grip quite well, but they don't open back up again. When the hand is the 'relaxed' position, the fingers will remain partially closed unless I physically push each one back. One solution to this maybe to run taught elastic bands or small springs over the top of each finger, so they are pulled to an open position when the finger servos are unpowered. I believe many makers solve this issue simply by stringing their fishing line tendons REALLY tight (maybe with the help of self-locking forceps or a small clamp), so that the fingers are forced back into position when not gripping. However, this makes each hand very difficult to string. Which is why I want to give external elastic a try.(I have used an image of a paper and string hand here because I don't have access to my robot at the moment but also the visible tendons illustrate exactly the same problem).

Elastic fingers SophieDev 06/22/2021 (Tue) 11:35:47 No.11000

>>10999 Like so?

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 11:59:15 No.11001

>>10999 This might not look very human, though. We have tendons on the back of our hand to open it. In your design approach the robot would need to spend energy to have the hand closed or keep it open.

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 12:10:32 No.11002

>>10999 >>11000 I think many designers opt for exactly what you're describing, and simply weave a thin bungee-like or elastic band along the dorsal ridge of each finger. While this is a minor source of energy consumption during the finger contraction phase, it's obviously a passive benefit during the relaxation phase. And in fact it's probably fairly efficient energy-wise, as the normal state of hands tends to be in the relaxed pose. nice digits

SophieDev 06/22/2021 (Tue) 15:24:27 No.11003

>>11002 LOL nice digits for a post about digits. I have some experimenting to do!

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 17:11:58 No.11007

>>11003 Thanks! >I have some experimenting to do! I'd suggest you have a look at the Nano Hand by The Robot Studio guy. He has an arrangement using elastic bands. Nano Hand - Finger Assembly https://youtu.be/kWeJyduvhwA Some other links anon posted here (>>10075). There's another quite sophisticated hand design video posted here somewhere. Can't locate it ATM for you SophieDev, but I'll plan to link it back here for you in the future when I stumble across it. Cheers.

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 18:47:32 No.11015

>>11002 Streched out is not relaxed, though. >>11007 Here are some videos on hands by therobotstudio. Also look into the following postings. We probably should also link them in the other thread for the corresponding body parts.

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 18:56:40 No.11016

>>11015 >Streched out is not relaxed, though. Agreed, ofc. By 'relaxed' I mean the passive position of the fingers/hands/etc. where the actuators are not actively driving the part. So, for the fingers that would mean 'not in the gripping position'. So, elastics can help 'passively' return fingers to this position, which is what I think SophieDev was talking about. >We probably should also link them in the other thread for the corresponding body parts. Yes good idea Anon. I'd say that having some kind of 'Anatomy Map' in the library thread might be good too.

Robowaifu Technician 06/22/2021 (Tue) 20:06:19 No.11017

>>11016 Maybe the elastic band or spring could be adjusted by a very small motor. In case of a band it could even be twisted to make it shorter and pull back stronger or the other way around. But mainly I was thinking about ajusting the length, to define the baseline of where the fingers should be if releaxed. So in other words, if the hand would be supposed to be rather closed, then the little motor would give some extra 'rope' to prevent it from flipping back.

Robowaifu Technician 06/23/2021 (Wed) 01:22:15 No.11029

>>11017 I like the idea of having an actuator-controlled re-tensioning system Anon. Good thinking. >..if the hand would be supposed to be rather closed.. Ahh, that's the source of my confusion: we were operating on different definitions of 'relaxed'. In the interests of unambiguous & clear communications I suggest we adopt the related term used in the animation industry, namely Neutral Pose. 'Modified T-Pose' is the closest example to my meaning, and roughly-speaking represents the middle-position of a joint (as in animation-rig joint), roughly halfway between it's extreme positions. Make sense?

Robowaifu Technician 06/28/2021 (Mon) 22:05:18 No.11146

>>4863 What about just something like this for a placeholder 'doing stuff' hand? It's just an elastic balloon filled with coffee grounds that serves as a useful gripper. Doesn't look very humanoid, but it does a good job of doing 'hand tasks' I think having hands that serve different goals is a good point to develop for. Maybe even have a hot-swappable slot for the to switch to the right tool for the job. If you really wanted to polish the system you could even have a rack of hands somewhere in the house for the robot to go change its own equipment.

Robowaifu Technician 06/28/2021 (Mon) 22:37:07 No.11149

>>11146 Yep I like that idea Anon. Letting our robowaifus have multiple 'hands' to use would be pretty useful (and interesting). I don't think the majority of men would be particularly averse to the idea itself either.

SophieDev 06/29/2021 (Tue) 12:02:40 No.11153

>>11146 Also, breasts full of coffee grounds? Go to squeeze booba - booba squeezes you.

Robowaifu Technician 06/29/2021 (Tue) 12:39:19 No.11154

>>11153 Lel. In Soviet Russia...

Robowaifu Technician 06/30/2021 (Wed) 21:44:00 No.11167

>>11029 >Modified T-Pose Okay, but humans don't act like that. If possible I'd like to avoid very awkward behaviors. That said, it could be a fallback position. >>11146 All of us have slightly different goals and priorities. I want something quite human like, so this isn't really for me.

Robowaifu Technician 06/30/2021 (Wed) 22:14:59 No.11171

>>11167 Nice. Alita looks great with her long hair Anon. I liked her before, but I like her even better now.

Robowaifu Technician 07/14/2021 (Wed) 01:02:31 No.11482

>>8651 Cheap but reasonably powerful (like MG996R that can produce up to 15kg starting torque at 6V) analog servos weight around 55g each. There are 15 servos on that arm (3 for each finger it seems). So servos alone would weight 825g. And that's only for fingers actuation! There supposed to be more moving parts in that part of the arm but as you can see on the vid there's barely any space left and construction itself doesn't look like it was designed for anything more than this one demo. There are smaller and lighter servos. And they cost a lot. I think they can weight something like 15g. That would make 15x15=225(g). Better but super expensive.Imagine paying 750-1500$ just for servos that move only fingers on only one hand. It seems like they are using something like that in their vid because servos are tiny.

Robowaifu Technician 07/14/2021 (Wed) 01:23:22 No.11485

>>11482 The mass of servos is exactly why I've been lobbying for relocating them into the 'central core' of the robowaifus, and transmitting force out to the extremities via Bowden cables instead. >tl;dr Reducing thrown-weight in extremities is crucial to both agility/performance, and (much more importantly) reducing energy consumption in our robowaifus.

Robowaifu Technician 11/04/2021 (Thu) 22:40:45 No.13977

>>11007 >>10075 therobotstudio has a new videos and a website about his Nano Hand online. Intro: https://youtu.be/uOeS_jklU2Y Website: www.robotnanohand.com Playlist with assembly: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLy7gxZH9jzfSGinQz8W42F5HdiTkT0Xm8

Robowaifu Technician 07/14/2022 (Thu) 02:04:33 No.16898

>During RSS 2021, my colleagues and I published a surprising new finding. It turns out, the softness of hands lets us manipulate some objects completely blind: without any visual/tactile/force feedback. We studied the nature of these open-loop skills, and identified three key design principles for robust in-hand manipulation. ... >Yet here, with this soft hand, a simple step adjustment to two actuators' inflations triggers this cool twirl. We do not compute anything. Instead, we just hitch a ride on the physics. This approach is super low-tech, and does something that advanced robot hands have a hard time doing. We published this in 2021. But this work could as well have been done 30 years ago. Air pumps and inflatable rubber are old things. https://aditya.bhatts.org/sensorless-in-hand-manipulation https://youtu.be/2vwdP4WjGoQ Paper, same as uploaded: http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss17/p089.pdf

Chobitsu 07/22/2022 (Fri) 09:03:05 No.16983

>>13977 Neat, that guy is quite a talent. >>16898 This is interesting. I'm a firm believer in 'holistic-systems-by-design'. Clearly our hands in particular exhibit this kind of thing. It will be extraordinarily-gratifying to me personally once /robowaifu/'s anons can produce appealing & effective hands for our robowaifus that don't cost an arm & a leg.

Robowaifu Technician 10/08/2022 (Sat) 15:47:44 No.17482

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGnSQbEzI9s Latest version of Clone's electro-hydraulic hand with a small form factor.

Robowaifu Technician 01/14/2023 (Sat) 12:52:25 No.18699

Biomimetic Mechatronic Hand Series by Will Cogley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uESxUEB-v3Q&list=PL6AJl-knQFCGJakVBP1_3EXqJyAS0qN8k

Robowaifu Technician 01/16/2023 (Mon) 01:07:10 No.18745

>Building a Robot Hand from Scratch >Why is it so hard? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ9g3O3X7dk I generally like the approach with putting small motors into the hand, though my thinking was to add additional one in the arm which could hold more than one finger but are stronger. The one in the hand are for fast and weak movements, the few motors in the arm for holding and more powerful moves. Also, our versions have to be much smaller than all these man hands, of course. Btw, Proto1 - Sophie's arm and fingers thread got never linked into this thread: >>6323 - now it is. Updates from therobotstudio on YouTube (focusing on hands and arms only): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmhOAQ2yPsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saTkGAdT8h8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bgoUk-Dcl8 It's called Dexhand: https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/Dexhand I'll probably wanted to go with his former variant (Nano Hand), if not something like the one from the first video above: https://github.com/TheRobotStudio/robot-nano-hand - but it's gone... Never mind, it's on Thingiverse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3648120 - I got it. BTW, I'm not endorsing the guy in a general sense. He's as nuts as many nowadays. Fitting into the culture of madness. His main project is a full humanoid, but it's supposed to look exactly like something between man and female. Brad Pitt and Scarlett Johansson in one, dependent on the angle you look at. Good reminder why this board here exists. I would use the clown emoji if it was allowed here. Look for yourself if you can take it, I mean it's still somewhat interesting and I like that he's making a great open source humanoid robot for work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38Fnp4m6W0

Robowaifu Technician 02/02/2023 (Thu) 10:42:29 No.19431

>>7702 >Shadow Hand >What makes the human hand special, and why is it worth replicating in mechanical form? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fm7QUiRUAJA >mainly using it for remote control with human operators TL;DW Hands are important and difficult to build

Chobitsu 02/02/2023 (Thu) 23:19:23 No.19444

>>19431 Thanks Anon! Once we master hands, we'll be very far down the path to success IMO.

NoidoDev ##eCt7e4 02/20/2023 (Mon) 02:32:02 No.20424

The MERO Hand: A Mechanically Robust Anthropomorphic Hand using Rolling Contact Joint - doesn't really look like a new concept to me, maybe this was the first one, or I'm overlooking something: https://youtu.be/EA9mRS_-SC0 >This video presents the MERO hand, which is a MEchanically RObust anthropomorphic hand using novel COmpliant Rolling-contact Element (CORE) joints. The proposed CORE joint, which has a simple structure, exhibits compliance in multiple directions. Its structural parameters were designed, to form underactuated finger designs that can perform adaptive finger motion during grasping. Experiments showed that the hand could withstand severe disarticulation and violent impact. The hand could perform various adaptive grasps and also in-hand manipulation, suggesting that the proposed design might be a viable solution for robust prosthetic hand.

Robowaifu Technician 02/23/2023 (Thu) 11:40:03 No.20643

You guys seen this yet? Think this has a future? I've seen loads of similar projects both by college students, researchers in universities and companies but they all come to naught. I think this tech has atleast a decade more to mature. The power consumption of just moving a single hand with these artificial muscles is eye-watering.

Robowaifu Technician 02/23/2023 (Thu) 11:41:25 No.20644

>>20643 sorry forgot link https://twitter.com/dhanushisrad/status/1628497852124258305

Chobitsu 02/23/2023 (Thu) 14:24:27 No.20664

>>20643 >>20644 Thanks Anon. Looks quite interesting! >LOL those silly Polish Bronies :^) https ://www.clonerobotics.com/clone-hand >=== -add funpost

Edited last time by Chobitsu on 02/23/2023 (Thu) 14:25:50.

Robowaifu Technician 05/23/2023 (Tue) 05:52:50 No.22714

>>22710 it better be able jack me off too.

Noidodev 05/23/2023 (Tue) 12:11:46 No.22717

>>20643 Yes many or all of us have seen this. We have two whole threads, one on humanoid robot videos https://alogs.space/robowaifu/res/374.html .... and another on waifu development projects https://alogs.space/robowaifu/res/366.html, it has at least been mentioned in the first one since it's not a gynoid. Here their YouTube: https://youtube.com/@CloneRobotics - they had a different name a while ago (Automaton, I think) >The power consumption of just moving a single hand with these artificial muscles is eye-watering. Okay, I don't remember that part, tbh

handbot#MNI+lj 05/23/2023 (Tue) 12:13:45 No.22718

>>20643 I disagree I think the tech is here right now and its a race against time to see who gets there first which is why I'm kind of semi panicky.

Robowaifu Technician 05/27/2023 (Sat) 02:32:39 No.22785

okay so I definetly want to start with the robot hand but which robot hand tutorial should I follow? which robot hand do we want on the waifu? Should I follow the tutorial or should someone engineer it from scratch? I don't think I can engineer it from scratch...

Noidodev 05/27/2023 (Sat) 06:29:16 No.22807

>>22785 I don't know what you mean by doing it from the scratch. Of course you would look into tutorials. Big problem with many hands is that they're not about bones plus soft material. But if you go for that, you will most likely need to make some elements out of metal.

The LAD Robotic Hand Robowaifu Technician 01/03/2024 (Wed) 18:51:14 No.27987

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blDjkmAOdUo This one isn't free but it is a fully-functioning hand. STL: https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/lad-robotic-hand-v1-0 (V2) https://cults3d.com/en/3d-model/gadget/lad-robotic-hand-improved-version

peteblank 01/03/2024 (Wed) 19:45:50 No.27988

Well i did make a hand so i'll chime in. I think the joins ought to be cylinders for more seamless movement. I also think most hands out there are too masculine. So I'll be modding/making a new hand i think.

Robophiliac 02/20/2024 (Tue) 22:01:00 No.29719

>>29428 Does anyone know of a printable hand design that has an open channel on the interior of each finger joint for mounting sensors? I'm thinking of a removable pc board with contact/pressure sensors that could be swapped out as technology improves and better sensors become available. That way we could start with something as simple as circuit board push-buttons or contact switches (like are used in copiers and printers) and upgrade later without having to build a new hand design. The hand and sensors would be covered by a silicone glove. This way the "skin" doesn't have to be made with built in sensors. Separate subassemblies mean cheaper upgrades and repairs. Basically I want to future-proof, as much as possible, the work I will be doing soon.

NoidoDev ##pTGTWW 02/21/2024 (Wed) 08:45:34 No.29732

>>27988 That's fine, I agree, but I think Chobitsu will ban you anyways. >>29719 I wanted to do this, but didn't get to it so far. I think you will have to go with a simple design first and replace it later. Making a really good hand will be really difficult and not everyone will need the same complexity. I'm convinced that it has to be made out of many small machined metal parts (maybe even Titanium, lol). Otherwise there's not enough space, and plastics would be too fragile if being so small. Also, ideally the lines for data and energy should not be cables, but the hinges should be made of metal parts insulated from each other. To picture it: Imagine the middle layer of each finger bone to be a PCB with lines, then an insulation on top and bottom, covered with metal, then maybe a TPU before the silicone rubber. The sensors would be in the TPU or silicone, but in the tips it might be little cameras ("gel sight") as part of the PCB and a little hole would allow to look at the soft material in the finger tip. The hinges more like very small "piano hinges" (aka "continuous hinges"), but with insulation between different parts, so different signals can be transmitted and received. Even if this would work, there would still be a problem with making sure the sensors wont be harmed or messed up by little cuts or interactions with the environments (needles, thorns).

Robowaifu Technician 03/12/2024 (Tue) 06:58:50 No.30267

>>18745 >Dexhand There is a site for it that didnt get listed https://www.dexhand.org/ I wonder if there is a way to make the hand smaller to a more feminine palm width. Also how to make it quieter aside from an outer casing.

Mechnomancer 03/13/2024 (Wed) 03:08:45 No.30286

>>30267 I recognized the use of mediapipe immediately: https://mediapipe-studio.webapps.google.com/home I encourage folks to check out the demos. Among other things it can do hand/body tracking, which means Real Steel -erm... I mean... robowaifus doing a synchronized dance with a human ain't so far fetched.

Robowaifu Technician 04/03/2024 (Wed) 03:05:18 No.30750

Not sure where to post this. When I was looking at Punyo which I had posted into the video thread >>30748 I had came across that Toyota has the gripper mechanism used is available for people to build. Not entirely humanoid just having soft pads with sensors instead of full on hands but it's workable and I think the same thing could be modified into a hand form either using it only in the palm then add fingers maybe even smaller versions in the pads into the fingers or something for more sensory ability. Just a thought. https://punyo.tech/

NoidoDev ##pTGTWW 04/03/2024 (Wed) 07:20:03 No.30757

>>30750 Thanks, it's the right place, I'd say. Btw, if people aren't responding more with some encouraging comments, it's just to not "spam" the board with that. Doesn't mean it's not appreciated.

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