Overview
The Yale GRAB Lab (Grab, Reach, Assemble, Build) led by Professor Aaron Dollar, researches dexterous manipulation, compliant grasping, and human-inspired hand design. The lab develops underactuated robotic hands and studies human manipulation to build more capable robotic grasping systems.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- None on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Data & sources
Web sources
1
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Partnerships
Every company Yale GRAB Lab has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1RightHand Robotics1× joint
Most recent
Yale GRAB Lab on the deployment map
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Relationships
Current leadership (1)
- Aaron Dollar Directorsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Yale GRAB Lab.
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Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Recent coverage
Yale GRAB Lab in third-party press
On Aerial Robots with Grasping and Perching Capabilities: A Comprehensive Review - Frontiers
RightHand Robotics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Staples® - GlobeNewswire
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Selects MIE Alum Aaron Dollar as an IEEE Fellow - UMass Amherst
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- early
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
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Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Yale GRAB Lab has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
Most-frequent partners
- 1RightHand Robotics1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- yale-grab-lab x RightHand RoboticswithRightHand Roboticsdevelopment—operating
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdAug 9, 2026
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Sources (1)
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Methodology: Verified · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
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Methodology surface for Yale GRAB Lab.In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Yale GRAB Lab from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
On Aerial Robots with Grasping and Perching Capabilities: A Comprehensive Review - Frontiers
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RightHand Robotics Signs Multi-Year Agreement with Staples® - GlobeNewswire
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Selects MIE Alum Aaron Dollar as an IEEE Fellow - UMass Amherst
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Locus Robotics partners with RightHand Robotics for warehouse automation - The Robot Report
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Video Friday: Package Delivery by Robot, and More - IEEE Spectrum
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Yale’s Robot Hand Copies How Your Fingers Work to Improve Object Manipulation - IEEE Spectrum
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Local tech company to occupy historic Union Square post office - The Somerville Times
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Pick and Place Robot Ready as RightHand Robotics Raises $8M - The Robot Report
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Haptic Taco Helps You Navigate By Feel - IEEE Spectrum
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/yale-grab-lab.md
- RSS feed: /companies/yale-grab-lab/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/dec4d2ee-88c6-4f60-a9a1-80ce1c718c87
- Revision history: /companies/yale-grab-lab/history
- Data documentation: /data
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Reality vs attention
Not enough verified signal yet to place Yale GRAB Lab against peers. Reality and attention percentiles publish once the underlying record clears its data floor.
6-month trend
Analysis
Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 24, 2026