BionicSoftHand
Prototype$9,800
A soft pneumatic robotic hand with flexible bellows and intelligent control for adaptive gripping and safe manipulation. It has 12 hand DoF and weighs 1.295 kg.
- Weight
- 1.3 kg
- Strength
- 4 kg
About
The BionicSoftHand is a soft pneumatic robotic hand developed by Festo SE & Co. KG as part of the company’s bionic and automation research work in Germany. It combines flexible bellows structures with control methods intended to support adaptive grasping and safer interaction with objects compared with rigid hands.
Publicly available descriptions emphasize its 12 degrees of freedom and relatively low weight for a robotic hand of its class. It appears in Festo’s bionic portfolio as a research and demonstration platform rather than a mass-produced industrial product, and no clear discontinuation date is widely documented in the available record.
Specifications
Body
- Weight
- 1.3 kg
- DoF (hands)
- 12
- Fingers
- 5
- Structural material
- Flexible 3D-textile knit cover (elastic, high-strength synthetic fiber) for finger bellows; silicone/elastic outer skin; internal elastomer bellows; synthetic materials for wrist/control housing
- Size
- human-hand sized
- Shipping size
- human-hand sized
Motion
- Strength
- 4 kg
- Motor tech
- Pneumatic actuation (air-chamber bellows in fingers + pneumatic swivel modules), controlled by compact valve terminal using proportional piezo valves
Sensing & Compute
- Tactile / force sensors
- Yes
Safety & Market
- Safe with humans
- safe manipulation; sensitivity helps when robots work near humans
- Primary market
- collaborative robots, service robotics, and flexible automation
- Country
- Germany
- Availability
- Prototype
- Price
- $ 9 800
Timeline2
- 2016-01-01 · milestone~Public descriptions note adaptive gripping
Available technical descriptions highlight flexible bellows, 12 degrees of freedom, and control for safe manipulation.
- 2015-01-01 · demo~Festo presents BionicSoftHand
Festo publicly introduces the soft pneumatic hand as part of its bionic robotics portfolio.