In the last two months  the work of the HANDS.DVI partners has been focused on

• designing the  algorithm  of mapping  synergies from the  paradigmatic hand,  the  model of the human  hand,  to robotic  manipulators with general kinematics

• realizing the experimental setups to be used in the next period of the project to validate the project  results  of HANDS.DVI.

Note that for the  experimental setup  we planned  to use a DLR-HIT  hand  II. However, the delivery  of the  DLR  hand  has  been  delayed  to  the  beginning  of September.   To  mitigate the  effect of this  delay  we have  planned  to  start using  other  two  hands  developed  in  the laboratories of Siena and Pisa.