Hasta
हस्त/ hasta
Hands that grasp, re-grasp, and use tools.
Hasta is fine manipulation — finger and wrist control for grasping, in-hand re-orientation, and contact-rich work. The hardest, most valuable problem in robotics, approached as a compiled motor primitive.
In development
Dexterous grasp
Pick, place, pinch, and power-grasp across object shapes and weights.
In-hand manipulation
Re-orient and re-grasp without putting the object down.
Tool use
Hold and wield tools with the precision the task needs.
Contact-rich
Force-aware control for assembly, insertion, and delicate work.
A hand is a high-dimensional, contact-rich control problem — the place where trained policies are most brittle. Hasta compiles dexterous control from human hand motion, so the primitive arrives already coordinated.
It covers the span from a firm power-grasp to a fingertip pinch, and the manipulation in between — the re-grasps and re-orientations that let a robot actually do useful work rather than just hold things.
Paired with Drishti's perception and Chetana's planning, Hasta turns 'see the object' into 'complete the task'.
Next system
Drishti दृष्टि — Perception & world-model.
See the world, and predict what it does next.