The document discusses grasping with multifingered hands. It introduces the advantages of multifingered hands over traditional robot manipulators with simple grippers, which allows grasping a larger variety of objects and performing finer motions. It then covers grasp statics, including contact models, the grasp map that relates contact forces to object wrenches, and conditions for force closure grasps that can resist external wrenches. Force closure grasps require internal forces and the directions of contact forces to satisfy certain properties. At least four frictionless contacts are needed for force closure in 2D and seven in 3D.