Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand

What happened

| Source: Boston Dynamics Boston Dynamics today unveiled the newest hand for its Atlas humanoid. Boston Dynamics engineers taped their pinkies and ring fingers together for a day to learn what they weren’t able to do. Boston Dynamics is a robotics company based in Waltham, and its products and services include humanoid robots.

The post Boston Dynamics drops pinkie on new humanoid hand appeared first on The Robot Report . Boston Dynamics said it didn’t set out to build a complicated hand, but instead a reliable one capable of using tools.

The hand has four fingers, 13 degrees of freedom (DOF), is directly actuated, and is designed for mass manufacturing. Previous versions of Atlas’ hand featured seven degrees of freedom and were designed to grasp a large variety of objects, Boston Dynamics said.