“…Various efforts have sought to develop adaptive and reconfigurable hands for these environments, such as in works by Lovchik and Diftler (1999), Laliberté and Gosselin (2001), and FIGURE 1 | Examples of real world applied hands (Lovchik and Diftler, 1999;Hemming et al, 2014;Controzzi et al, 2016;Galloway et al, 2016;Gardecki and Podpora, 2017;Stuart et al, 2017;Friedl et al, 2018;Negrello et al, 2018). This paper focuses on field exploration, industrial applications, service robots, search and rescue and prosthetics.…”