Researchers at ETH Zurich's Soft Robotics Lab taught a robotic hand to use its five fingers as legs and locomote on its own. It moved untethered across 14 surfaces, recovered from falls, and supported its own weight while pressing keyboard arrow keys, scoring 29 correct presses out of 32.

The experiments used an off-the-shelf WUJI hand fitted with a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, IMU and battery, with control policies trained in Isaac Lab and transferred to the physical system.