COVVI Robotic Hand

COVVI Robotics of Leeds, founded in 2017, makes the COVVI Hand bionic prosthesis and offers an Ethernet-controlled robotics edition of it, the COVVI Robotic Hand. The hand has five stainless-steel and aluminium digits inside a silicone glove, six actuators in the hand and a weight of 1.03 kg; the maker does not state a count of degrees of freedom.

Grip force is 213 N, the hand load 10 kg, and a tripod grip closes in 0.4 s. Each fingertip carries an FSR force sensor, giving simple but complete pressure sensing on every digit. Control runs through the ECI interface over Ethernet with ROS 2 support and a Python API, addressing individual fingers or predefined grips; the mount is an ISO 9409-1-50-4-M6 flange that fits typical collaborative arms.

Applications are humanoids, research and industry. Buyers should keep this edition apart from the Bluetooth-controlled COVVI Hand prosthesis, which in size M weighs 662 g with 80 N grip and 32 kg load; those figures do not apply to the robotics version. Supply voltage and price are not published, so the hand is available on request.

The Adam's Hand Plus - Robotics and the Surge followed the same path from prosthesis to robotics.