Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.16187v1
• Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2026 17:59:05 GMT
• Title: Handroid: Bridging Dexterous Hand and Humanoid
• Abstract summary: Handroid is a desktop-scale dual-embodiment robot that integrates both capabilities within a single reconfigurable platform.<n>In the dexterous hand embodiment, 20 DoFs form an anthropomorphic hand closely matching the kinematic structure of the human hand.<n>In the humanoid embodiment, the same articulated modules are reconfigured into a humanoid with a head, arms, and legs, including a 12-DoF lower-limb structure for locomotion and whole-body motion.
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• Abstract: Dexterous hands and humanoid robots are typically developed as distinct embodiments: the former enable contact-rich manipulation at the object scale, whereas the latter provide mobility and whole-body interaction in human-centered environments. We introduce \textbf{Handroid}, a desktop-scale dual-embodiment robot that integrates both capabilities within a single reconfigurable platform. Handroid reuses one 27-DoF electromechanical body as either a dexterous hand or a desktop humanoid, measuring 0.33 m in height and 2.05 kg in weight. In the dexterous hand embodiment, 20 DoFs form an anthropomorphic hand closely matching the kinematic structure of the human hand. In the humanoid embodiment, the same articulated modules are reconfigured into a humanoid with a head, arms, and legs, including a 12-DoF lower-limb structure for locomotion and whole-body motion. Handroid further provides a unified control and learning framework supporting hand teleoperation, dexterous grasping, in-hand manipulation, humanoid locomotion, gait generation, and interactive motion authoring. We validate the platform through real-world dexterous manipulation, reinforcement-learning-based locomotion, keyframe motion deployment, and a long-horizon task involving embodiment reconfiguration, locomotion, docking, and dexterous pick-and-place. These results position Handroid as a compact and reproducible platform for advancing morphology-reconfigurable robotics and cross-embodiment robot learning.

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