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03 · SUBSECTIONPrehensile Hand System

Grip regulation

Three firmware-enforced modes: carry, hold-hand, fragile.

Photo-realistic close-up of the companion's worn brown fingertips closing around an object, with the steel tendon harness visible at the knuckle line, a nail-bed sensor strip beneath each nail and a fine slip-arrest filament mesh wrapped over the object. Leader arrows mark four labelled parts.

Three firmware modes:

  • Carry: up to 180 N total grip — a bag of shopping, a watering can.
  • Hold-hand: capped at 8 N — a child or an elder can pull away at any moment.
  • Fragile: capped at 2 N with active slip-arrest — a wine glass, an egg, a phone.
SPSpecifications
Carry mode
≤ 180 N
Hold-hand mode
≤ 8 N
Fragile mode
≤ 2 N with slip-arrest
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