An Introductory Revision to Humanoid Robot Hands

In this paper is presented a collection of humanoid anthropomorphic robotic hands, which represent the state of the art at the best of our knowledge, at the date of this paper. It is revised the most important characteristics of the robotic hands and a comparative table is developed. The objective of this paper is try to give a general idea of the most well known robot hands by compiling and comparing principally what it thinks are the most relevant designs.

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