en.Wedoany.com Reported - On June 3, BrainCo officially launched its Global Scholars Program, open to researchers from universities, research institutions, and enterprises worldwide, supporting research in embodied intelligence, robotic manipulation, tactile perception, and human-robot interaction using the BrainCo Revo 3-U21 series dexterous hand.
The focus of this program is to further push the dexterous hand from an in-house product to a global research ecosystem. As embodied intelligence enters real-world scenarios, the capability of a robot's "hand" is becoming a key factor determining application boundaries: robots must not only see targets and plan paths but also understand grip strength, friction states, slip tendencies, object deformation, and operational feedback upon contact. In the past, much robotics research relied on grippers, simplified end-effectors, or simulation environments, enabling standard grasping but struggling with more delicate physical interaction tasks. By opening the Revo 3-U21 series dexterous hand to researchers at universities, research institutions, and enterprises, BrainCo is introducing high-degree-of-freedom end-effectors, tactile sensing capabilities, and real-world operation platforms into more external labs, helping accelerate the cycle between dexterous manipulation algorithms, robot foundation models, tactile data collection, and real-task validation.
The Revo 3 series has previously been publicly introduced as a new generation of intelligent dexterous hands, featuring 21 active degrees of freedom and employing a fully direct-drive and backdrivable architecture.
For the research community, the significance of the dexterous hand open program lies not only in acquiring hardware but also in establishing reproducible experimental conditions. Embodied intelligence research requires handling numerous real-world variables, including different object sizes, weights, materials, surface textures, contact positions, and operation sequences. If external researchers can conduct algorithm testing, data collection, and task replication on a unified hardware platform, it becomes easier to generate comparable research results and facilitate the accumulation of open-source toolchains, datasets, and control strategies. If the BrainCo Revo 3-U21 series dexterous hand can enter more labs and enterprise R&D scenarios, it will provide a broader range of real-world interaction samples for robotic dexterous manipulation, thereby supplementing physical contact information that pure visual data or simulation data cannot cover.
From an industry perspective, BrainCo's launch of the Global Scholars Program also indicates that Chinese embodied intelligence companies are moving from product launches to ecosystem building. The dexterous hand is a common component in humanoid robots, industrial collaborative robots, medical rehabilitation devices, and research platforms, but its commercial deployment requires long-term validation: joint lifespan, control stability, tactile sensing consistency, algorithm compatibility, communication protocols, installation adaptation, and safety boundaries all need repeated refinement across different research scenarios. By opening up to global researchers, the company can quickly gain feedback from fields such as robotic manipulation, neural control, tactile perception, reinforcement learning, simulation transfer, and human-robot interaction. Research teams can also conduct experiments on hardware closer to industrial products, shortening the distance between lab research and engineering implementation.
The next phase of competition in embodied intelligence will largely shift from single-system demonstrations to comprehensive capabilities encompassing "hardware platforms + data ecosystems + researcher networks." As the terminal through which robots directly contact the real world, the openness of the dexterous hand will affect how quickly the algorithm community can accumulate experience. Key variables for the BrainCo Global Scholars Program going forward will focus on the application mechanism, scope of equipment support, methods for sharing research results, development interfaces, technical service capabilities, and the depth of collaboration with university and enterprise projects. If these aspects can be continuously advanced, the Revo 3-U21 series dexterous hand has the potential to become an important operational platform within the embodied intelligence research ecosystem.
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