The Shadow Dexterous Hand is a humaniform robot hand system developed by The Shadow Robot Company in London. The hand is comparable to a human hand in size and shape, and reproduces all of its degrees of freedom. The Hand is commercially available and currently used by NASA, The University of Bielefeld and Carnegie Mellon University.The Shadow Dexterous Hand has been designed to be as similar as possible to the average hand of the human male. The forearm structure is comparable in length to the human forearm, although at the base it widens to 146mm.
The Shadow Dexterous Hand has been designed to have a range of movement equivalent to that of a typical human hand.
The four fingers of the hand contain two one-axis joints connecting the distal phalanx, middle phalanx and proximal phalanx and one universal joint connecting the finger to the metacarpal.
The little finger has an extra one-axis joint on the metacarpal to provide the Hand with a palm curl movement.
The thumb contains one one-axis joint connecting the distal phalanx to the proximal phalanx, one universal joint connecting the thumb to the metacarpal and one one-axis joint on the bottom of the metacarpal to provide a palm curl movement.
The wrist contains two joints, providing flex/extend and adduct/abduct.
This means that that the Shadow Dexterous hand has 24 joints all together, with 20 degrees of freedom.
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