# Sharpa > Markdown twin of https://roboterminal.app/companies/sharpa · https://roboterminal.app/companies/sharpa.md ## On shared sources - [Unitree](https://roboterminal.app/companies/unitree) (7) - [PaXini](https://roboterminal.app/companies/paxini) (6) - [Boston Dynamics](https://roboterminal.app/companies/boston-dynamics) (5) - [Sunday Robotics](https://roboterminal.app/companies/sunday-robotics) (5) - [Tesla](https://roboterminal.app/companies/tesla) (4) - [WUJI](https://roboterminal.app/companies/wuji) (4) - [Chestnut](https://roboterminal.app/companies/chestnut) (3) - [Inspire Robots](https://roboterminal.app/companies/inspire-robots) (3) - [Proception](https://roboterminal.app/companies/proception) (3) - [Xynova](https://roboterminal.app/companies/xynova) (3) - [1X](https://roboterminal.app/companies/1x) (2) - [Agility](https://roboterminal.app/companies/agility) (2) - [DH-Robotics](https://roboterminal.app/companies/dh-robotics) (2) - [Figure](https://roboterminal.app/companies/figure) (2) - [IEEE](https://roboterminal.app/companies/ieee) (2) - [LinkerBot](https://roboterminal.app/companies/linkerbot) (2) - [Lumos](https://roboterminal.app/companies/lumos) (2) - [Mundane Bot](https://roboterminal.app/companies/mundane-bot) (2) - [Physical Intelligence](https://roboterminal.app/companies/pi) (2) - [Agibot](https://roboterminal.app/companies/agibot) (1) - [Alibaba Group](https://roboterminal.app/companies/alibaba-group) (1) - [Amazon](https://roboterminal.app/companies/amazon) (1) - [AMD](https://roboterminal.app/companies/amd) (1) - [Apptronik](https://roboterminal.app/companies/apptronik) (1) - [Astribot](https://roboterminal.app/companies/astribot) (1) - [Cornell University](https://roboterminal.app/companies/cornell-university) (1) - [Direct Drive Tech](https://roboterminal.app/companies/direct-drive-tech) (1) - [Gaorong Ventures](https://roboterminal.app/companies/gaorong-ventures) (1) - [Generalist](https://roboterminal.app/companies/generalist) (1) - [Google DeepMind](https://roboterminal.app/companies/google) (1) - [HongShan](https://roboterminal.app/companies/hongshan) (1) - [Hugging Face](https://roboterminal.app/companies/hugging-face) (1) - [IDG Capital](https://roboterminal.app/companies/idg-capital) (1) - [JD Corporate](https://roboterminal.app/companies/jd-corporate) (1) - [Linker](https://roboterminal.app/companies/linker) (1) - [Meituan](https://roboterminal.app/companies/meituan) (1) - [Neo](https://roboterminal.app/companies/neo) (1) - [Pollen Robotics](https://roboterminal.app/companies/pollen-robotics) (1) - [Psyonic](https://roboterminal.app/companies/psyonic) (1) - [Qiming VC](https://roboterminal.app/companies/qiming-vc) (1) - [Reward AI](https://roboterminal.app/companies/reward-ai) (1) - [Robotis](https://roboterminal.app/companies/robotis) (1) - [Stanford](https://roboterminal.app/companies/stanford) (1) - [Tencent Global](https://roboterminal.app/companies/tencent-global) (1) - [World Labs](https://roboterminal.app/companies/world-labs) (1) - [XMAQUINA](https://roboterminal.app/companies/xmaquina) (1) - [XPeng](https://roboterminal.app/companies/xpeng) (1) ## Pulse - [@CyberRobooo on X](https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/2112557104255074608) This is really cool an open-source tactile manipulation dataset for humanoid robots Real-robot tactile data is scarce. Sharpa has released SharpaDex v1.0 on Hugging Face: 28,993 real-robot teleoperate… - [@VaderResearch on X](https://x.com/VaderResearch/status/2111624098715476444) End effector types for robots: 🇨🇳 Unitree Dex1-1 | 1 DoF 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics Memo | 4 DoF 🇰🇷 Tesollo DELTO | 12 DoF 🇸🇬 Sharpa Wave | 22 DoF Grippers, 3 fingers or 5 fingers... The best choice d… - [@chris_j_paxton on X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2109787209633083717) A really cool competition that pushes the frontier of what's possible in embodied ai. This is a really hard task -- paper is unforgiving -- and no one nailed it but substantial progress was made. Exci… - [@chris_j_paxton on X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2109748959996469664) My biggest takeaway from IROS was about hands and dexterity. It used to be so hard to do meaningful work with hands -- and it's still hard, these systems are fragile and expensive, but it's so, so muc… - [@michellelsun on X](https://x.com/michellelsun/status/2109712878320443421) Dexterity is the frontier for robotics today Great writeup by @chris_j_paxton - that was my main takeaway from IROS as well https://t.co/dvt1X3b7QI - [@chris_j_paxton on X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2109647690250568127) Some thoughts on a robotics conference: the research community increasingly is looking at enabling contact-rich manipulation with dexterous hands, and has the tools to do so https://t.co/zZhiEHLX49 - [@HumanoidAn on X](https://x.com/HumanoidAn/status/2109566156986253764) 🤖 Who is leading the race for humanoid dexterous hands in 2026? The competition is heating up, but there's no single winner. Different companies are leading in different areas: @Inspire_robots: Leadi… - [@CyberRobooo on X](https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/2108828421547823370) A robot hand that turns one page at a time Turning a single book page is weirdly hard. Slow down, feel the paper, peel one sheet ,miss and you grab five. UVTA is BIGAI, Sharpa and Shanghai Jiao Tong's… - [@PrismaXai on X](https://x.com/PrismaXai/status/2108180873938161943) We eyeballed where the arms went at IROS. It didn't matter. Mounting height did. A 1 cm error cuts success rates by something like 70%. @castorhat's recap covers what mattered for our π0.5 demo, what … - [@chris_j_paxton on X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2108126026400166289) Interesting to think of this on terms of how flexibly one can create opposition. A good read https://t.co/FV3fzg0fMp - [@PrismaXai on X](https://x.com/PrismaXai/status/2107606874225098995) Boston Dynamics didn't have a booth at IROS 2026. It still took the week. @castorhat's recap from Pittsburgh covers a show floor crowded with hands, hand makers turning into data companies, and the si… - [@PrismaXai on X](https://x.com/PrismaXai/status/2107585842029986085) Field notes from IROS 2026 in Pittsburgh: a show floor full of dexterous hands, hand makers turning into data companies, and site-unseen demos that held up. https://t.co/76rYBC8l6B - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2107381670043140506) DITTO-X makes teleoperation work both ways. You can control a dexterous robot hand, or let the robot move your hand to match its current state before takeover. That makes intervention smoother and tur… - [@IlirAliu_ on X](https://x.com/IlirAliu_/status/2107379376912212002) A bidirectional teleoperation system for dexterous robot hands. It lets you control a robot hand, and the robot hand can also move your hand. When the robot makes a mistake, it first moves your hand t… - [@VaderResearch on X](https://x.com/VaderResearch/status/2106467169286406279) Sharpa North prepares a cocktail. It may not look that impressive at first... But a few details really stand out: ✶ Consistent whole-body retargeting ✶ Almost no noticeable latency ✶ Glove transfers f… - [@CyberRobooo on X](https://x.com/CyberRobooo/status/2106408001636851903) Humanoid robots have already surpassed humans in certain capabilities. The Sharpa D01 can autonomously, attentively, and agilely grasp soft cylindrical rods that are dropped at random. Human performan… - [@ctorobotics on X](https://x.com/ctorobotics/status/2106383780915380499) Not every robot needs a human-like hand. 🤖🖐️ The end-effector is often designed around the job it needs to perform. 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics | Unique gripper 🏠 Designed for home chores and fine manipul… - [@Scobleizer on X](https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/2106097175511826457) In my consumer research and in talking to people who build robots everyone wants a robot that looks like them. Particularly in the hands. Then when building (or buying) reality sets in. Four fingers d… - [@Scobleizer on X](https://x.com/Scobleizer/status/2106096432675504346) In my consumer research and in talking to people who build robots everyone wants a robot that looks like them. Particularly in the hands. Then when building (or buying) reality sets in. Four fingers d… - [@VaderResearch on X](https://x.com/VaderResearch/status/2106074631505334443) Atlas' four-finger hand surprised many. But different end-effectors are common. 🇺🇸 Sunday Robotics | Unique gripper 🔶 Built for home chores. 🔶 Easy to simulate and collect data with. 🔶 Still capa… - [@xmaquina on X](https://x.com/xmaquina/status/2105692081041891647) Robotico Live is back with the latest from across robotics. This week, AMD’s $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs, Direct Drive Tech’s IPO, Amazon’s robotics expansion and more. @RachelCreates and @… - [@ctorobotics on X](https://x.com/ctorobotics/status/2104866274404642878) A robot that catches falling objects in real time. 👀🤖 Sharpa’s humanoid robot is demonstrating remarkably fast reaction and manipulation capabilities at IROS 2026 catching randomly falling objects b… - [@chris_j_paxton on X](https://x.com/chris_j_paxton/status/2104565821179658376) Impressive reaction time from the new @SharpaRobotics robot at IROS. Catching randomly falling foam cylinders. I did not do nearly this well https://t.co/ZACoh45V46 - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2104388042689536088) IROS 2026 @SharpaRobotics brought a fun challenge where visitors can try the same task as the robot. Watching this, I already know the robot would beat me. #IROS2026 #Robotics #PhysicalAI https://t.co… - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2104387056910684488) IROS 2026 One of the most fun robotics challenges at IROS 2026. @SharpaRobotics lets people try the same task as the robot which makes the hand control much easier to appreciate. Watching this, I’m pr… - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2102015282160033889) Robot hands are getting much more serious. Unitree’s Dex5-1 has 20 DoF, with 16 active joints and 4 coupled joints. It weighs 1.1 kg, reaches ±1 mm fingertip repeatability, 10 N fingertip force and ru… - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2101282219251716565) Sharpa Robotics just dropped a new hand video and the level keeps going up. This is the Sharpa Wave running WM Craftnet on a human scale fivefinger hand with 22 active DoF. The policy combines wrist d… - [@ctorobotics on X](https://x.com/ctorobotics/status/2101174450846564492) No training for every tool. No task-specific policy. Just one policy learning how to manipulate unfamiliar tools. 🤯🤖 Researchers have developed SimToolReal, a sim-to-real reinforcement learning fram… - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2099614560617418811) Two humanoid robots, one household chore most people never think about. Apptronik’s Apollo 2 pulls the liner together and ties a trash bag using five-fingered hands. Google DeepMind tested this exact … - [@VaderResearch on X](https://x.com/VaderResearch/status/2099189152088547824) Dexterous hands, different approaches: ✸ 1X NEO | quasi-direct tendon drive ✸ Sharpa Wave | proprietary actuators ✸ Linker L30 | tendon-driven ✸ Shadow Hand | tendon-driven https://t.co/VWqujXv98V - [@spaceandtech_ on X](https://x.com/spaceandtech_/status/2098767686889247034) Sharpa’s North humanoid robot is now serving ice cream to real customers at a Dairy Queen store in Shanghai. It can prepare the ice cream, add toppings, and deliver orders using the store’s existing e… - [@techniahqrobot on X](https://x.com/techniahqrobot/status/2098491528045821964) A generated video showed a robot how to grasp a jar. The interesting part came after the video. GALATEA uses Seedance 2.0 to generate manipulation clips, reconstructs the 3D motion of the hand and obj… - [@SAldwais on X](https://x.com/SAldwais/status/2094922840420364715) الصناعة في مجال الروبوتات الشبيهة بالإنسان (Humanoid Robots) منقسمة حاليًا بين طريقتين لتصميم اليد: 1. اليد المدفوعة بالأوتار (Tendon-driven) الموتورات تكون في الساعد، والكابلات (مثل الأوتار في جسم ال… - [@PANONYGroup on X](https://x.com/PANONYGroup/status/2094402070724112752) #Robotics #HumanoidRobots #PhysicalAI The humanoid robotics business of @XPengMotors has signed equity financing agreements to raise more than $900 million at a post-money valuation exceeding $6.3 bil… --- Source: Roboterminal · https://roboterminal.app/companies/sharpa.md