ROBOTICS / LIVE EMBODIED SYSTEMS
Real-Time Bionic Humanoid Hand
Tendon-driven robotic hand with live computer vision tracking.
THE HARDWARE / PHYSICAL BUILD
01 / STRUCTURE
3D Printed Chassis
Bambu Lab
02 / MOTION
Multi-Axis Actuation
PCA9685 PWM Driver & Servos
03 / CONTROL
Embedded Control
Arduino
PROTOTYPING & WORK IN PROGRESS
Build Process & Log
Iteration 1 print fit checking
01 / PROTOTYPING
Chassis Fit Check
Tolerancing PCA9685
Servo array initial wiring
02 / INTEGRATION
Multi-Axis calibration
Servo test setup
Detailed tendon routing log
03 / ASSEMBLY
Dynamic Tendon Routing
Manual guide channels thread
Completed mech ready for code
04 / FINAL ASSEMBLY
Completed Mechanism
Full system build ready
THE SOFTWARE / COMPUTER VISION
Gestures become motion in real time.
A Python and MediaPipe computer vision system captures webcam hand gestures, extracts joint coordinates, and translates the live pose into physical actuations across the tendon-driven hand. The pipeline turns perception into motion with a direct, inspectable loop between camera input, gesture state, and servo response.
VIDEO DEMO / COMPUTER VISION LOOP
Webcam input → MediaPipe landmarks → tendon actuation