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when compared to commercial alternatives. An open-source
hand that researchers can fabricate and upgrade independently of manufacturers makes repairs and component modification more efficient and, hopefully, will also promote the
coevolution of hardware with software and control in the field
of robotic manipulation.
However, we feel that simply releasing and validating the
designs in the open-source robotic hands library is not
enough. A major focus for future work is to identify willing
end users who will put their own design modifications online,
thereby allowing progress in the research community to move
even faster.
Acknowledgments
We thank Dr. Lael Odhner of RightHand Robotics for his
contributions to the 3-D-printed predecessors to the Yale
OpenHand Project. Funding was provided under National
Science Foundation grants IIS-0853856 and IIS-1317976.
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Raymond R. Ma, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut. E-mail: ray.r.ma@gmail
.com.
Aaron M. Dollar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Yale
University, New Haven, Connecticut. E-mail: aaron.dollar@
yale.edu.
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