Help people understand, compare and advance dexterous hands.

We bring together hardware references, research, practical learning and community contributions. Researchers, builders, students and manufacturers can read, question and improve the knowledge here.

Shared knowledge

Find hardware, code and datasets with links to the original work and clear attribution.

Practical learning

Use guides, exercises and documented setups to turn a question into an experiment.

Transparent evidence

Distinguish published claims, reported experiments and unknowns. Make corrections with sources that others can inspect.

A community initiative, open to participation.

Dexhands Association is a community initiative and is not currently incorporated. Dexhands is our short name. The association name does not imply nonprofit or tax-exempt status, independent governance or standards-body accreditation.

The site administrators maintain the library and review community submissions. Contact info@dexhands.org for questions, corrections or account help. A free community account is not formal association membership, and a directory listing does not make a manufacturer an association partner.

Our current editorial principles, featured-placement disclosure and community guidelines explain participation and evidence requirements.

A growing reference, with visible limits.

Hardware records include commercial hands, research platforms, variants and adjacent grippers. They are not a count of manufacturers or commercially available products. Resources may cover several hand variants.

The hand-resource review is dated 2026-09-22. Other specifications and references carry their own dates. This is curated coverage, not every hand or project on the internet. Project files and datasets stay with their original publishers. Dexhands currently provides discovery, discussion and collections; it does not host Git repositories, large dataset uploads or GPU jobs.

Evidence should be easy to question.

Manufacturer specifications

Reported by the manufacturer or distributor. Follow the original page and check the hardware revision, test conditions and publication date. A listed value is not an independent measurement.

Research and software

Credit stays with the original authors. Model-specific, family, research-use and related-generation labels describe the relationship to a hand; none is a compatibility certificate.

Community experiments

Contributors should identify their hardware, firmware, control method, procedure, trial count, failures and supporting files. A video alone is a demonstration, not a reproducible benchmark.

Unknowns and estimates

Missing information stays unknown. Estimates must be identified as estimates. Announced factory capacity, production targets, orders and actual shipments are different measures.

Featured manufacturers, clearly identified.

Xynova Flex 2 and Prima 1 receive priority in featured hardware areas and the default hand-directory order. This is selected promotional placement, not an independent performance ranking, a certification or a compatibility claim. Price, weight and DOF sorting follow the recorded values; every manufacturer remains subject to the same source and evidence requirements.

Choose a question worth testing.

Follow a research collection through simulation, teleoperation, touch, training data, hardware or evaluation. Each route includes sources, practical checks and a template for reporting what happened. Make a private copy, combine hardware with projects and datasets, reorder your shortlist, and export its references. You can submit your collection for public review.

You do not need to own a robot.

Reading is open. A free account is required to post. First contributions are reviewed; submitting a correction does not automatically change a catalog record. Discuss the correction publicly so its source can be reviewed.

Fair participation. Clear attribution.

• Apply the same evidence standards to every brand. Directory inclusion is not endorsement, partnership or certification.
• Disclose employment, sponsorship, free equipment and other relevant commercial relationships when contributing.
• Profile affiliations are self-declared. Account registration or post approval does not verify a person’s identity or employer.
• Link and credit original work. Cite the authors’ paper, repository or preferred citation for their research; use Dexhands as a discovery reference.
• Share only material you are allowed to publish. Link to licensed files at their original source instead of copying entire papers, datasets or documentation.

These are participation and editorial standards, not a claim of independent governance or standards-body accreditation.

A direct way to reach us.

For account help, privacy requests or questions about the library, email info@dexhands.org. For a correction, include the page, the proposed change and an original source. Never send passwords or recovery codes.

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Public technical questions belong in community discussions, where other builders can learn from the answers.