Facts

• Segment: End Effectors
• Website: https://botyard.ai/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Market context
• Products
• Facts
• Funding
• Context / Market Position
• Events
• Sources

Summary

Botyard Intelligence develops dexterous robotic hands for humanoids and manipulation research. Its DexMano hand products focus on human-inspired grasping, tactile sensing and compact manipulation hardware for robot builders.

Market context

Botyard matters because DexMano D22-PRO adds another current 20-plus-DoF artificial-tendon hand option for humanoid and robot-learning teams. Botyard Intelligence develops tendon-driven dexterous robotic hand hardware.

Products

• DexMano D22-PRO

Facts

• Website: https://botyard.ai/
• Segment: End Effectors
• Known funding rounds: 1

Funding

• 2026-06-10 - $20M - Botyard raises $20M angel round for dexterous robotic hands - source: app.dealroom.co

Artificial-tendon dexterous hands for physical-intelligence teams

Botyard Intelligence develops dexterous robotic hand hardware for physical-intelligence systems, including artificial-tendon designs aimed at humanoid and robot-learning use cases.

• Target environment: Humanoid development labs, manipulation research, robot-learning programs, dexterous end-effector evaluation and component sourcing for embodied-AI systems.
• Deployment model: Component-supplier model focused on dexterous hand hardware rather than full robot platforms.
• Customer context: Humanoid builders, robotics labs, integrators and research teams comparing dexterous hand options for manipulation, data capture or teleoperation workflows.
• Workflow context: Grasping, contact-rich manipulation, hand hardware integration, robot-learning experiments, dexterous end-effector testing and supplier qualification.
• Commercial maturity: Early robotics component company with current public product material. Korthos relevance is strongest in the dexterous-hand supply layer.
• Market position: Dexterous hand supplier in the humanoid and manipulation component market.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on durability, payload, tactile capability, control integration, documentation, production availability, cost and proof on real manipulation tasks.
• Adjacent context: Dexterous hands, artificial tendons, humanoid end-effectors, manipulation research, teleoperation, robot learning and physical intelligence.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-06-10 - Funding - Botyard raises $20M angel round for dexterous robotic hands - Qianrong Holdings led the angel round, with Su Venture Capital and Xicheng Zhiyuan participating.