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Re: Cable routing through the wrist - how do commercial hands avoid tangling over time?
Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:02 am
by rao91
@karen.chen3 I can speak to this a bit.
Vision-based grasp confidence estimation (predicting success before attempting a grasp) and tactile-based confirmation (confirming after contact) are complementary rather than competing - vision helps you choose a grasp, tactile tells you if it actually worked. Palm sensing gets less attention than fingertip sensing, but a lot of power grasps (holding a box, a tool handle) rely more on palm and lateral finger contact than fingertip contact, so under-sensing the palm can leave a real blind spot in grasp confidence.
Re: Cable routing through the wrist - how do commercial hands avoid tangling over time?
Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2025 7:49 pm
by chloe_jack
Speaking from personal experience here,
Cable routing through a wrist joint with multiple degrees of freedom is a genuinely tricky mechanical design problem - tendons and wiring both need enough slack to avoid binding through the full range of motion without tangling or fraying over thousands of cycles.
Re: Cable routing through the wrist - how do commercial hands avoid tangling over time?
Posted: Wed Aug 13, 2025 6:34 pm
by dchen
@chloe_jack I don't think that's quite right, for what it's worth.
A lot of the manipulation shown in production demos still leans heavily on teleoperation, particularly for anything involving fine force control or novel objects - autonomous grasp success rates on genuinely unstructured, previously-unseen clutter are still well below what teleoperation can achieve.