Carnegie Mellon University (Robotics Institute)

The Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is one of the largest university robotics centres in the world. The lab of Deepak Pathak published the open-source LEAP Hand at RSS 2023, a four-finger design with 16 Dynamixel servos that is 3D-printed and can be built for about 2,000 USD in parts.

The code is released under the MIT licence, the CAD files under CC BY-NC-SA, with documentation on the project website and in a GitHub repository, which has made the hand a popular platform in robot-learning research.