
Elon Musk
@elonmusk · · Original post · Share
Designing dexterous hands for robots is a very hard problem. Then figuring out how to manufacture them at scale is 100 times harder.

Luis Batalha
@luismbat
This is the chaos produced by a triple pendulum with just 3 degrees of freedom. Your hand has 27: 4 per finger + 5 for the thumb + 6 for the wrist Building a robot to conduct this orchestra of joints and tendons to pick up a coin is ... non-trivial.
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