Abstract: The anthropomorphic hand herein disclosed has finger-representing digits of generally conventional configuration, but the thumb-representing digit of the hand is of a novel configuration and the plan with which all digits are articulated is in two parts, the thumb- and the first and second finger-representing digits being articulated with one palm part, and the third and fourth finger-representing digits being articulated with the second palm part for angular displacement, about, inter alia, axes which are similarly inclined at an acute angle towards the first and second finger-representing digits. By virtue of the thumb-representing digit configuration, the two part palm, and the manner of articulation of the third and fourth finger-representing digits therewith, the hand exhibits great dexterity, possessing, as it does, all twenty four degrees of freedom present in the human hand.