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This review establishes a critical framework for benchmarking multifingered robot hands, positioning dexterity as the essential interface required to realize physical AI capabilities. By proposing new metrics across three levels of system complexity, the authors address current limitations in evaluating fine in-hand manipulation and versatility. This work directly advances the field of embodied intelligence by defining standardized methods to measure progress toward autonomous physical interaction.
Benchmarking Dexterity of Multifingered Robot Hands: A Review and Perspective
arXiv:2609.05585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Robot hands are a key interface between AI and the physical world, making advances in robotic dexterity essential to realizing the vision of physical AI. While impressive dexterity has been demonstrated with simple grippers, multifingered hands offer the potential for substantially greater versatility, precision, and adaptability in manipulation. In this review, we survey the state of the art in benchmarking the dexterity of multifingered robot hands. Recognizing dexterity as a complex and multifaceted concept, we present the perspective of the U.S. National Science Foundation HAND Engineering Research Center, with a particular focus on fine in-hand manipulation. We introduce a framework consisting of three benchmark levels that correspond to increasing system complexity, review representative benchmarks at each level, and propose new benchmarks and metrics to address limitations in the literature. More information can be found at https://hand-erc.github.io/benchmarking/.
Authors:Anthony Shilati, Anunth Ramaswami, Luke Batteas, Sylvia Tan, Anthony Barcio, Sairam Umakanth, Preksha Rao, David McDougall, Landry Graves, Ahmet A. Ozkan, Yunsoo Yoon, Arushi Pradhan, Michael G. Henry, Rohan Kota, Damian Gonzalez, Gray C. Thomas, Gary K. Fedder, J. Edward Colgate, Kevin M. Lynch
Abstract:Robot hands are a key interface between AI and the physical world, making advances in robotic dexterity essential to realizing the vision of physical AI. While impressive dexterity has been demonstrated with simple grippers, multifingered hands offer the potential for substantially greater versatility, precision, and adaptability in manipulation. In this review, we survey the state of the art in benchmarking the dexterity of multifingered robot hands. Recognizing dexterity as a complex and multifaceted concept, we present the perspective of the U.S. National Science Foundation HAND Engineering Research Center, with a particular focus on fine in-hand manipulation. We introduce a framework consisting of three benchmark levels that correspond to increasing system complexity, review representative benchmarks at each level, and propose new benchmarks and metrics to address limitations in the literature. More information can be found at this https URL.
Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2609.05585 [cs.RO]
(or arXiv:2609.05585v1 [cs.RO] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.05585 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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