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Teen designs and builds a robotic hand with only LEGOs

Margherita Bassi

created: Nov. 11, 2025, 3 p.m. | updated: Nov. 14, 2025, 10:42 a.m.

In October, a student presented a robotic hand made entirely from LEGOs at the 2025 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in Hangzhou, China. Jared used LEGO MINDSTORMS, a LEGO robotics kit, to build a LEGO version of SoftHand-A, a 3D-printed anthropomorphic robot hand introduced in an earlier study. The hand is a LEGO version of SoftHand-A, a 3D-printed anthropomorphic robot hand. The hand is a LEGO version of SoftHand-A, a 3D-printed anthropomorphic robot hand. “Since the hand can be constructed from LEGO pieces and uses state-of-the-art design concepts for robotic hands, it has the potential to educate and inspire children to learn about the frontiers of modern robotics.”The robotic LEGO hand includes over 100 bearings.

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