A review of adaptive intelligence in tactile sensing robotic hands for human centered dexterous control Mohammed R. Ahmed, Sadeq H. Bakhy, Ihsan A. Baqer Discover Mechanical Engineering, 2026 The development of dexterous hands that can accommodate and reason about contact uncertainty—rather than blindly following pre-planned trajectories—remains one of the most consequential unsolved problems in robotics engineering. This article reviews 115 studies published between January 2020 and December 2025, synthesising advances across the hand–arm pipeline in four areas: embodiment, tactile and multimodal perception (slip detection, contact-state estimation, texture recognition, local geometry, and stiffness inference), dexterous control and learning, and human-centered deployment. Several patterns recur consistently across the reviewed corpus. Tendon-driven systems remain the dominant hand architecture, yet many evaluations underreport the limitations imposed by friction, hysteresis, and calibration drift, which together erode repeatability in ways that matter for sustained deployment. Soft and compliant end-effectors broaden the safety envelope in human-shared settings but generally reduce the precision available for fine in-hand manipulation. Across the reviewed studies, vision–tactile fusion was frequently associated with stronger manipulation robustness than vision-only baselines; this advantage holds across task types, though the magnitude varies with sensing quality and controller design. Within the reviewed corpus, pure reinforcement learning pipelines remained predominantly confined to simulation or simplified hardware, while model-based and hybrid controllers appeared more consistently on real hardware under deployment-grade latency and safety constraints. Four gaps recur across all reviewed areas: principled coupling of semantic reasoning with tactile execution, credible safety certification for close human–robot proximity, the absence of standardised benchmark reporting, and unresolved long-horizon reliability. A deployment-oriented evaluation framework and practical readiness criteria are synthesised to guide future research priorities.
Design optimisation for a novel underactuated robotic finger by genetic algorithms Ihsan A. Baqer, Wafa Abd Soud, Mohammed R. Ahmed Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 2022 This paper presents a novel design of the robotic finger as a development of the Otto bock hand design, especially in the index finger of the hand. Namely, make it composed from three phalanges ins...
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Design optimisation for a novel underactuated robotic finger by genetic algorithms IA Baqer, WA Soud, MR Ahmed Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering 20 (2), 397-405 , 2022 2022 Citations: 4
Kinematic Analysis of Underactuated Robotic Finger Design RA Mohammed, WA Soud, IA Baqer IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1094 (1), 012070 , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Optimum Design of Specific Prosthetic hand MR Ahmed University of Technology , 2019 2019
Experimental study of 3D printing density effects on the mechanical properties of the carbon-fiber and polylactic acid specimens IA Baqer Engineering and Technology Journal 37 (04 Part A) , 2019 2019 Citations: 26
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Experimental study of 3D printing density effects on the mechanical properties of the carbon-fiber and polylactic acid specimens IA Baqer Engineering and Technology Journal 37 (04 Part A) , 2019 2019 Citations: 26
Kinematic Analysis of Underactuated Robotic Finger Design RA Mohammed, WA Soud, IA Baqer IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 1094 (1), 012070 , 2021 2021 Citations: 6
Design optimisation for a novel underactuated robotic finger by genetic algorithms IA Baqer, WA Soud, MR Ahmed Australian Journal of Mechanical Engineering 20 (2), 397-405 , 2022 2022 Citations: 4
Optimum Design of Specific Prosthetic hand MR Ahmed University of Technology , 2019 2019
تحسين النتاج التعليمي في الجامعات التكنولوجية العراقية BMA Mohammed Raed Ahmed Kassim, MS The fifth conference for Quality Assurance of Higher Education, Alshariqa … , 2015 2015