Sharpa

Market context

Combines high-resolution tactile sensing with model-driven control, targeting dexterous manipulation beyond scripted workflows. Early demonstrations show sustained, multi-step task execution, indicating progress toward real-world manipulation systems. Represents a hardware + model integrated approach to general-purpose manipulation.

Products

• Sharpa North
• Sharpa wave

Facts

• Website: https://www.sharpa.com
• HQ: Singapore, Singapore
• Founded: 2024
• Segment: humanoid robotics

Dexterous humanoid robots with tactile sensing and multi-step manipulation

Sharpa develops general-purpose humanoid robots and dexterous manipulation systems. Its SharpaWave robotic hand features over 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip using Dynamic Tactile Array (DTA) technology. The North humanoid robot, unveiled at CES 2026, demonstrates long-horizon manipulation using the CraftNet VTLA model.

• Target environment: Retail, hospitality, food service, domestic environments and dexterous manipulation research and development settings.
• Deployment model: Robot platform model built around humanoid hardware, dexterous hands, tactile sensing, embodied AI models and customer deployments.
• Customer context: Retail operators, hospitality businesses, food service providers, domestic robot users and robotics researchers.
• Workflow context: Dexterous manipulation, multi-step task execution, tactile sensing, object handling, human-robot interaction and autonomous task planning.
• Commercial maturity: Sharpa has early product visibility through CES 2026 and disclosed tactile sensing technology, with the North robot expected to begin production in mid-2026.
• Market position: Humanoid robotics company differentiated by high-resolution tactile sensing and dexterous manipulation hardware.
• Adoption constraints: Manipulation reliability, sensor durability, task generalisation, production scale, cost and customer deployment validation.
• Adjacent context: Dexterous manipulation, humanoid robots, tactile sensing, embodied AI and general-purpose robotics.
• Source confidence: medium

Events

• 2026-06-01 - Product Launch - Unitree announces H2 Plus as NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid for academic research - Unitree announced H2 Plus, a humanoid reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform for academic and humanoid robotics research. The system combines a Unitree H2 humanoid chassis, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Jetson AG…
• 2026-03-11 - Research Publication - Sharpa presents MoDE-VLA research for contact-rich bimanual manipulation - Sharpa released research on MoDE-VLA and RL-augmented teleoperation for contact-rich bimanual manipulation. The team demonstrated the system on autonomous apple peeling, using dual dexterous hands to coordinate grip, rotation, and peeling in a high-precision…
• 2026-03-11 - Research Publication - Sharpa's robot autonomously peels apple using dual dexterous hands - • At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Sharpa's newly debuted full-body robot, North, played fully autonomous ping-pong rallies with human opponents and ran live demonstrations for four straight days, eight hours a day. • The robot utilized Sharpa's dexterous robotic ha…
• 2026-01-06 - Demonstration - Sharpa's North Robot Demonstrates Windmill Assembly at CES 2026 - • Sharpa unveiled its full-body robot, North, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. • North autonomously assembled over 300 paper windmills during the event, each requiring more than 30 consecutive manipulation steps. • The demonstrations highlighted North's dexterous ma…
• 2026-01-06 - Product Launch - Sharpa Robotics Introduces CraftNet VTLA Model for Fine Manipulation - • Sharpa Robotics announced CraftNet, an end-to-end hierarchical VTLA (Vision-Tactile-Language-Action) model for fine manipulation. • The model integrates a high-frequency physical contact control layer called System 0, operating at approximately 100 Hz using…

Team

• Shaoqing Xiang - Co-Founder - Adds founder context for Sharpa's rapid push into general-purpose robotic manipulation and its CraftNet VTLA model.
• Alicia Veneziani - VP of GTM and President of Europe - Useful public-facing leadership row because Sharpa's European expansion, NVIDIA ecosystem activity and CES visibility have been represented through her role.

Context tags

• Humanoid dexterous hand platform - Peer Group - Sharpa provides humanoid dexterous hand platforms.
• Humanoid VLA control - Workflow - Sharpa enables VLA-based humanoid control.
• Humanoid robot control stack - Peer Group - Sharpa builds humanoid robot control software and development tooling.
• Embodied robot development - Workflow - Sharpa supports embodied robot development.
• Tactile dexterous hand control - Capability - Sharpa supports tactile dexterous hand control.
• Humanoid dexterity builder - Peer Group - Sharpa focuses on humanoid dexterity and manipulation.
• Humanoid robot development labs - Customer Environment - Sharpa serves humanoid robot development labs.
• Dexterous in-hand manipulation - Workflow - Sharpa supports in-hand dexterous manipulation.
• Robot learning infrastructure - Peer Group - Sharpa supports robot learning infrastructure.
• Dexterous robot hand builder - Peer Group - Sharpa dexterous hands support robot manipulation.

Customers and deployments

• Production Status - mass production announced - 2026-01-06 - robotic-hand production - Sharpa said its SharpaWave human-sized dexterous robotic hand entered mass production, moving the component from prototype status in…
• Production Status - robotic hand entered mass production - 2025-12-19 - dexterous robotic hand production - Third-party coverage reported Sharpa’s advanced robotic hand entering mass production, moving the dexterous-han…

Articles

• 2026-01-06 - Sharpa unveils North humanoid and SharpaWave hand at CES 2026 - The Singapore-registered robotics startup, debuted four fully autonomous humanoid demonstrations at CES alongside its mass-produced 22-DoF han…