# EPFL

Swiss ‘Dexterous Hand’ Leaps Forward: A Robotic Hand That Grasps, Flips and Crawls Its Way to Real-World Tasks

EPFL researchers have developed a modular robotic hand that replicates 33 human grasp types and adds dual‑sided grasping plus autonomous crawling, enabling it to handle oversized objects and reposition itself to process multiple targets. Published in Nature Communications, the device bridges a gap between laboratory dexterity demonstrations and practical applications in industry, service robotics and field exploration, though challenges in sensing, energy and integration remain.