ETH Zurich turns a robotic hand into a robot that crawls on its fingertips

Researchers at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab fitted a commercial Wuji Technology hand with a small battery and computer pack and trained it with reinforcement learning to walk on its fingers. It moved at about 9 cm per second over 14 surfaces and pushed objects to targets, which the team sees as useful for maintenance and search and rescue in tight spaces.

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