Don't Give Gesture Platforms' William Lin a Hand — He's Brought His Own: The High-Dexterity HW1
Gesture Platforms' William Lin has launched a crowdfunding campaign for a highly-dexterous robotic hand — offering 10 active degrees of freedom across 19 joints: the Gesture Hand Wrist 1 (HW1).
"When I started this project, I naively wanted to build myself a hand that I could use for testing new control methods and algorithms," Lin explains of how the HW1 project began. "But as I suffered through iteration hell, I was unable to rescue myself with a market solution that provided more than finger flexion and wouldn't cost me my own hand. The HW1 has now undergone 20 iterations over 3+ years. While early versions focused exclusively on the hand, the design eventually pivoted to the direct- and tendon-driven architecture with an integrated wrist that you see today. This shift better mimics human anatomy and offers future potential for strength and dexterity scalability."
The HW1, designed to mimic a five-fingered...
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