{"id":690077,"date":"2025-09-14T21:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-tool-advancing-the-capabilities-of-previous-robot-hand-technology\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T21:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T18:05:16","slug":"a-tool-advancing-the-capabilities-of-previous-robot-hand-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-tool-advancing-the-capabilities-of-previous-robot-hand-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b40872af3\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a40b40872af3\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-tool-advancing-the-capabilities-of-previous-robot-hand-technology\/#Hot_stuff\" >Hot stuff<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/a-tool-advancing-the-capabilities-of-previous-robot-hand-technology\/#%E2%80%98You_have_to_feel_it\" >&#8216;You have to feel it&#8217;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"article-gallery lightGallery\">\n<div data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-2.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-2.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The MOTIF hand, the robotic hand developed by the researchers. Credit: Zhou et al\">\n<figure class=\"article-img\">\n            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800a\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-2.jpg\" alt=\"The MOTIF Hand: A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology\" title=\"The MOTIF hand, the robotic hand developed by the researchers. Credit: Zhou et al\" width=\"800\" height=\"530\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up text-truncate-js text-truncate mt-3\">\n                The MOTIF hand, the robotic hand developed by the researchers. Credit: Zhou et al<br \/>\n            <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Growing up, we learn to push just hard enough to move a box and to avoid touching a hot pan with our bare hands. Now, a robot hand has been developed that also has these instincts.<\/p>\n<p>The MOTIF Hand, developed by a student team in collaboration with Daniel Seita, a USC Viterbi assistant professor of computer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a>, is built on the idea of being multimodal\u2014that is, having several sensory abilities. The most prominent of these abilities relate to temperature and force, with built-in sensors for depth, force and temperature allowing the hand to sense and react to these factors.<\/p>\n<p>These capabilities create potential not only for better research involving robotic hands, but they also allow these hands to last longer by avoiding temperature-related damage. Force-related capabilities could also have a surprisingly practical real-world use.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In factories and other domains, a robot would have to push to get objects into their targets, and that requires measuring some amount of force,&#8221; Seita said. &#8220;That type of force sensor can help in those cases, just to check that the robot is exerting the right amount of force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We haven&#8217;t seen people build this type of hand before,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Hot_stuff\"><\/span>Hot stuff<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The MOTIF Hand builds on the foundation of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/v1.leaphand.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LEAP Hand<\/a>, which was built by a research team at Carnegie Mellon in 2023. MOTIF&#8217;s key advancement is the addition of human-like sensory capabilities. This MOTIF Hand, which contains far more accurate human-like features and abilities, could have myriad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>lications, including in factory work and even cooking or welding, Seita said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"mb-4\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\">\n    <meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"USC team develops new sensory robot hand advancements\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/video\/2025\/usc-team-develops-new.mp4\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"The MOTIF Hand, developed by a student team in collaboration with Daniel Seita, a USC Viterbi assistant professor of computer science, is built on the idea of being multimodal\u2014that is, having several sensory abilities. Credit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Canva Licensed Footage\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-09-11T04:46:00-04:00\"\/><br \/>\n        <meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/video_tmb\/2025\/usc-team-develops-new.mp4.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n    <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/video\/2025\/usc-team-develops-new.mp4\"\/><br \/>\n            <video class=\"embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9\" id=\"jwVID85040\" controls=\"\" poster=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/video_tmb\/2025\/usc-team-develops-new.mp4.jpg\"><source src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/video\/2025\/usc-team-develops-new.mp4\" type=\"video\/mp4\"><\/source><\/video><figcaption class=\"text-darken text-low-up mt-4\" itemprop=\"caption\">The MOTIF Hand, developed by a student team in collaboration with Daniel Seita, a USC Viterbi assistant professor of computer science, is built on the idea of being multimodal\u2014that is, having several sensory abilities. Credit: USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Canva Licensed Footage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The robot&#8217;s ability to sense temperature comes from a thermal camera built into the palm of the hand. Seita and his team of USC Viterbi graduate students aimed to create a hand that would simulate a human understanding of temperature.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we&#8217;re cooking, we have a pot that&#8217;s very hot. We might put our hand near it to check if it&#8217;s safe to touch before we actually touch it, to avoid burns and damage,&#8221; Seita said. &#8220;We wanted that same intuition conveyed into a robot system.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an intuitive system that requires the hand to be close to the material whose temperature it&#8217;s detecting, said Hanyang Zhou, a co-author of the research paper, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/pdf\/2506.19201\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors,&#8221;<\/a> who recently graduated from the Viterbi School with a master&#8217;s in computer science. The paper is published on the <i>arXiv<\/i> preprint server.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were thinking, is it possible in some certain way to get a signal but not touch anything? So, we put an infrared-based camera right in the palm,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, the MOTIF Hand can detect temperature through this thermal camera without even touching an object\u2014just placing the hand close enough for the camera to examine it does the job.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"article-gallery js-article-gallery\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"The proposed MOTIF hand. Credit: Zhou, Lou, Liu, et al.\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool.jpg\" alt=\"The MOTIF Hand: A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    The proposed MOTIF hand. Credit: Zhou, Lou, Liu, et al.<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/tmb\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/scx2.b-cdn.net\/gfx\/news\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-1.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Data processing pipeline for thermal-based grasping. a) First, researchers collect images from diverse viewpoints of the object and use SAM2 [18] to extract the object mask. b) Then they reconstruct the 3D mesh and point cloud, perform thermal-RGB data alignment, and do reprojection. Credit: &lt;i&gt;arXiv&lt;\/i&gt; (2025). DOI: 10.48550\/arxiv.2506.19201\">\n<figure class=\"article-img text-center\">\n                <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/scx1.b-cdn.net\/csz\/news\/800\/2025\/the-motif-hand-a-tool-1.jpg\" alt=\"The MOTIF Hand: A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology\"\/><figcaption class=\"text-left text-darken text-low-up text-truncate mt-3\">\n                    Data processing pipeline for thermal-based grasping. a) First, researchers collect images from diverse viewpoints of the object and use SAM2 [18] to extract the object mask. b) Then they reconstruct the 3D mesh and point cloud, perform thermal-RGB data alignment, and do reprojection. Credit: <i>arXiv<\/i> (2025). DOI: 10.48550\/arxiv.2506.19201<br \/>\n                <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>                                                                                                        <!-- TechX - News - In-article --><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%98You_have_to_feel_it\"><\/span>&#8216;You have to feel it&#8217;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>The work done by Seita, Zhou and their team was designed to make the process of testing temperature and force feel more natural\u2014in other words, true to human experiences with these things. For example, force is something that humans can&#8217;t see, just feel. The MOTIF Hand is designed around the same sensations we use to understand force-related properties, such as an object&#8217;s weight, allowing for more life-like robotic reactions to force.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We as humans cannot distinguish [force] as a vision you have to feel it. But how is that possible for a robot hand?&#8221; Zhou asked. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t know whether a water bottle is full of water, I just flick it. I&#8217;ll shake it, right?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The IMU sensors built into the MOTIF Hand bring this simple test to robotics. The hand, like our own, merely needs to flick or shake an object to determine its weight.<\/p>\n<p>The MOTIF Hand was based on Carnegie Mellon&#8217;s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/v1.leaphand.com\/static\/leap_hand_poster.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">LEAP Hand<\/a>, which was open source. To further advance this sensory <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/technology\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"4\" title=\"Technology\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a>, Seita and his team have promised to make the MOTIF Hand open-source as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Open-sourcing research advancement is really important to advance the community,&#8221; Seita said. &#8220;The more people that use our hand, the better it is for research.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zhou described the MOTIF Hand&#8217;s sensory advancements as a &#8220;platform&#8221; that he hopes the entire robotics community will build on for the future.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We should make it easy [and] accessible for more and more research teams, as long as they are interested in such a platform,&#8221; Zhou said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-main__more p-4\">\n<p><strong>More information:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHanyang Zhou et al, The MOTIF Hand: A Robotic Hand for Multimodal Observations with Thermal, Inertial, and Force Sensors, <i>arXiv<\/i> (2025). <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-doi=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.48550\/arxiv.2506.19201\" target=\"_blank\">DOI: 10.48550\/arxiv.2506.19201<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"mt-3\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<strong>Journal information:<\/strong><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite>arXiv<\/cite><br \/>\n                                                        <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/arxiv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/techx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v2\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"d-inline-block text-medium my-4\">\n                                                Provided by<br \/>\n                                                                                                    University of Southern California<br \/>\n                                                    \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"icon_open\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<svg>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<use href=\"https:\/\/techx.b-cdn.net\/tmpl\/v2\/img\/svg\/sprite.svg#icon_open\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\"\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/svg><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p>                                        <!-- print only --><\/p>\n<div class=\"d-none d-print-block\">\n<p>\n                                                <strong>Citation<\/strong>:<br \/>\n                                                The MOTIF Hand: A tool advancing the capabilities of previous robot hand technology (2025, September 14)<br \/>\n                                                retrieved 14 September 2025<br \/>\n                                                from https:\/\/techxplore.com\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a>\/2025-09-motif-tool-advancing-capabilities-previous.html\n                                            <\/p>\n<p>\n                                            This document is subject to copyright. 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