ETH Zurich turns off-the-shelf robotic hand into a small robot that walks on its fingertips and operates autonomously

Amirhossein Kazemipour's team at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab fitted a commercial robotic hand from Wuji Technology with an 80-gram backpack (containing a battery, IMU, and Raspberry Pi Zero) and used reinforcement learning in simulation to train a policy that lets it crawl on its fingertips.