Brainco Revo 2 Touch Biomimetic Dexterous Right Hand (XTR)

Between a robot's wrist and the object it wants to hold lies a short stretch of space in which a great deal can go wrong: a joint that overshoots, a finger that squeezes too hard, a bus that cannot keep up with the controller. The Brainco Revo 2 Touch Biomimetic Dexterous Right Hand (XTR) is designed for teams who want to work in exactly that stretch. It is the right-hand model of the Touch version of the Revo 2 family, a bionic dexterous hand intended for robot integration and research.

Robots Middle East sells and supplies the Brainco Revo 2 Touch Biomimetic Dexterous Right Hand (XTR) to customers across the Middle East. Our team prepares the quotation, arranges delivery and supports the order, so that the hand reaches your laboratory or integration bench with the paperwork and guidance a research project needs.

Background

The company and its lineage

Brainco was founded in 2015 and was incubated by the Harvard Innovation Lab (i-Lab), according to the published company background. That origin matters for understanding the product: the company works at the boundary between human intention and machine action, and its dexterous hands carry that outlook into robotics. The Revo 2 is described by its maker as a bionic dexterous hand for robot integration and research, which tells a buyer at once that it is meant to be built into larger systems and studied, rather than used as a closed, finished appliance.

The Revo 2 sits within a wider range. Earlier work is represented by the BrainCo Revo 1 Intelligent Dexterous Bionic Hand, while the Revo 2 generation is offered in three versions, each with a left-hand and a right-hand model: Basic (XRL and XRR), Pro (XEL and XER) and Touch (XTL and XTR). The model on this page is the XTR, the right-hand Touch hand.

Positioning and key technology

The Touch version is the member of the family that carries the touch designation. Its siblings share the same platform description: six active joints and a total of eleven degrees of freedom, closed-loop servo control, and a choice of industrial communication interfaces. What distinguishes the Touch from the Basic is, on the evidence available to us, the tactile orientation implied by its name and a wider supply voltage range. The detail of the tactile sensing, including sensor resolution, is not published in the sources we hold, and we say so plainly rather than guess.

The control side is easier to describe. The hand is reported to include closed-loop servo control, custom gesture definitions, and protections for current, stall, high temperature and collision conditions. For a laboratory, protections of this kind are not a luxury: a hand that is programmed and re-programmed many times a day will inevitably be asked to do something its designers did not intend, and built-in safeguards make those experiments less costly.

Technical Specifications

Specifications as published by a single source; they are confirmed against the manufacturer's datasheet at quotation.

What makes the Touch version different from the Basic and Pro?

The three versions share a platform, so the useful question is where they diverge. On the figures we hold, the clearest difference is the supply voltage. The Basic version is listed at 12-28V, whereas the Pro and Touch versions are both listed at 12-64V. A wider range is helpful where the hand will be powered from a robot's existing high-voltage bus, because it can reduce the amount of power conversion needed on the arm or body.

The second difference is the one in the name. The Touch is the version oriented towards tactile perception, which is the capability a researcher chooses when the question is not merely whether an object was grasped, but how it was held. We have no published sensor resolution or sensing range to quote, so a team whose project depends on those numbers should request them before committing. If tactile data is not central to the work, the BrainCo Revo 2 Pro Dexterous Right Hand (XER) or the BrainCo Revo 2 Basic Right Dexterous Bionic Hand (XRR) may be the more economical route into the same family.

How does the XTR fit into a robot's control system?

Integration is where a dexterous hand either earns its place or becomes a burden. The Revo 2 is reported to support RS485, CAN FD and EtherCAT. That spread covers a simple serial link for a bench test, a fieldbus familiar from mobile robots and vehicles, and a real-time industrial network of the kind found in automation cells. A team can start with the interface it already has and change later.

On the software side, the maker reports SDK support for Linux, Windows and ROS workflows. Many research groups already run ROS, so a hand that fits into that environment lowers the effort of the first experiment. Each hand also carries a default device ID: for the right hand it is 127, which matters when a left and a right hand share one bus. Teams building a bimanual system will want the matching Brainco Revo 2 Touch Biomimetic Dexterous Left Hand (XTL), whose default ID is a different value and which must be addressed separately.

Who is the Brainco Revo 2 Touch Right Hand (XTR) for?

The first group is university and corporate research laboratories studying manipulation, grasp planning and learning from contact. For them the combination of eleven degrees of freedom, 0.1° control precision and a tactile orientation offers a platform on which results can be compared and repeated.

The second group is humanoid and mobile-manipulator developers who need a hand that speaks industrial protocols and accepts a wide voltage range. The third is integrators building demonstration cells, where custom gesture definitions allow a set of hand poses to be programmed and recalled without writing every motion from scratch. Teams that want a broader overview of related equipment can browse our Hands and Research Robots categories.

Buyers whose work does not depend on touch data, or whose power system is limited to the lower voltage range, should consider the Basic or Pro versions instead. Those who need a left hand should look at the XTL linked above.

What is the Brainco Revo 2 Touch Right Hand (XTR) used for?

1. Manipulation research. Studying how a multi-jointed hand grasps, re-grasps and releases objects under closed-loop servo control.
2. Humanoid robot development. Giving a humanoid platform a right hand that can be integrated over RS485, CAN FD or EtherCAT.
3. Tactile-aware grasping studies. Exploring how contact information can guide grip decisions, subject to confirming sensor details at quotation.
4. Gesture programming. Defining custom hand gestures and recalling them for demonstrations, teaching and repeated trials.
5. Bimanual experiments. Pairing the right hand with its left-hand counterpart for two-handed tasks, each addressed by its own device ID.
6. Teaching and prototyping. Supporting student projects and early prototypes through SDK access on Linux, Windows and ROS.

Pricing and Availability

Robots Middle East does not publish a price for this product on the page. Please request a quotation, stating the quantity, the intended application and whether you need the right hand, the left hand or both. Delivery, customs and support are arranged with the quotation, so that you receive one clear proposal rather than separate arrangements. Everything you need to begin that request is available on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many joints and degrees of freedom does the XTR have?

The Revo 2 hand is reported to have six active joints and eleven degrees of freedom in total. This applies to the platform described by the manufacturer.

Which communication interfaces are supported?

The published specification lists RS485, CAN FD and EtherCAT. The SDK is reported to support Linux, Windows and ROS workflows.

What supply voltage does the Touch version use?

The Touch version is listed at 12-64V, as is the Pro version, while the Basic version is listed at 12-28V. Please confirm against the datasheet at quotation.

What protections does the hand include?

The hand is reported to include protections for current, stall, high temperature and collision conditions, together with closed-loop servo control. Custom gesture definitions are also supported.

What is the default device ID of the right hand?

The default ID of the right hand is 127, while the left hand uses a different default. This is relevant when two hands share one communication bus.

Are the ingress protection rating and tactile sensor resolution published?

No. The manufacturer has not published the ingress protection rating, the Touch version's operating temperature or the tactile sensor resolution in the sources we hold. They are confirmed at quotation.

Where can I buy the Brainco Revo 2 Touch Right Hand (XTR) and what does it cost?

You can buy it from Robots Middle East, which supplies the hand across the Middle East. We do not print a price; please request a quotation and we will respond with a proposal that includes delivery, customs and support arrangements.

Summary

A robot hand succeeds or fails in the short distance between wrist and object, and the Brainco Revo 2 Touch Biomimetic Dexterous Right Hand (XTR) is built for work in that distance. It offers six active joints, eleven degrees of freedom, 0.1° control precision, a pinch force of at least 15N, a 12-64V supply range, three industrial interfaces and built-in protections, all as published by a single source and to be confirmed at quotation. Where details such as sensor resolution remain unpublished, we say so rather than fill the gap. For a team evaluating a right-hand tactile platform in the Middle East, this page is the starting point.