Robotics Research September 19, 2026

ETH Zurich demonstrates a robotic hand that walks on its fingers

ETH Zurich reports a five-fingered robotic hand that crawls, recovers from falls and interacts with objects by treating its fingers as legs; the disclosed figures remain lab-specific.

By Signal AI News DeskUpdated September 19, 2026

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ETH Zurich robotic hand standing on its fingers in a laboratory — ETH Zurich’s fingers-as-legs robotic-hand demonstration · Credit: ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Lab View source

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ETH Zurich Soft Robotics Lab · Fingers as LegsPrimary source
arXiv · Fingers as Legs: A Hand That WalksPrimary source

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