Startup 1X Unveils New Generation of Hands for Humanoid Robots

Startup 1X Unveils New Generation of Hands for Humanoid Robots

Startup 1X has stunned everyone with its new generation of hands for humanoid robots. Incredible flexibility, speed, and precision. The startup modestly calls the new hands "An API to the Physical World". In other words, if the "brain" of the robot is the computer, then its hands determine how aware it is of the world around it and what it can do in it.

The engineering of the hands is indeed very complex and interesting, there has been nothing like this on the market before:

• 25 degrees of freedom, distributed not evenly as usual, but anatomically. For example, the thumb has about as much as all the other fingers combined.

• A tendon-based drive, with motors located in the forearm pulling tendons through the wrist. In a sense, like a human. This ensures the lightness of the hand and low inertia even when applying great force.

• A VERY precise sensitivity system. Each joint also serves as a force sensor, measuring the force of pressure and shift at the fingertips. The system knows its position and applied forces very accurately at any given moment, allowing for smooth movement and fine motor skills.

1X is right. From a hardware perspective, there is nothing more important in humanoids than hands, making this, without exaggeration, a new word in robot engineering. If such hands are paired with well-thought-out internals, the result will be the most functional robot in the world and, consequently, a market leader in the form of 1X.

This year, they plan to produce 10,000 such hands already.