Facts

• Company: Sharpa
• Product type: Dexterous Hand
• Status: prototype
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://www.sharpa.com/pages/wave

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Sharpa Wave is Sharpa dexterous robotic hand for embodied-AI research and robot OEM integration. It offers 22 degrees of freedom, human-hand-like structure, tactile sensing and simulation assets for teleoperation, policy training and manipulation.

Overview

Sharpa Wave is Sharpa dexterous robotic hand for embodied-AI research and robot OEM integration. It offers 22 degrees of freedom, human-hand-like structure, tactile sensing and simulation assets for teleoperation, policy training and manipulation.

Market context

Sharpa Wave is Sharpa's dexterous robotic hand for high-resolution tactile sensing and fine manipulation.

• Target environment: Manipulation labs, robot hand research, mobile manipulator integration and tactile-sensing testbeds.
• Workflow context: Fine manipulation, contact-rich sensing, object handling, fingertip feedback and dexterous end-effector research.
• Customer context: Researchers, robot builders and integrators evaluating tactile robotic hands.
• Deployment model: Prototype dexterous hand product associated with Sharpa Robotics.
• Commercial maturity: Prototype-stage product with public positioning and limited deployment evidence.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on sensing resolution, grip force, durability, control interface and integration support.
• Market position: Tactile dexterous-hand lane where sensing quality is the central differentiator.
• Adjacent products: Shadow Dexterous Hand, Linker Hand L20, AGILINK OmniHand, OceanTrix hand

Audience

Robot OEMs

Workflow

Fine manipulation, contact-rich sensing, object handling, fingertip feedback and dexterous end-effector research.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Manipulation labs, robot hand research, mobile manipulator integration and tactile-sensing testbeds.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Robot OEMs
• Workflow: Fine manipulation, contact-rich sensing, object handling, fingertip feedback and dexterous end-effector research.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Manipulation labs, robot hand research, mobile manipulator integration and tactile-sensing testbeds.

Specifications

• Hand Dof: 22
• Weight: 0.9 kg
• Fingertip Force: >20 N at one fingertip
• Speed: >4 Hz rapid movement speed across all gestures
• Tactile Sensing: High-resolution tactile sensing
• Manipulation: Human-like size and kinematics for high-frequency operation and heavy-load grasping

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation
• Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Robotic Grasping
• Stack Layer: Manipulation Layer

Record / Articles

• 2026-01-06 - Article - Sharpa unveils North humanoid and SharpaWave hand at CES 2026

Operations Claims / 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…

Comparable Systems

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• DG-5F-S - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• Xynova Flex 1 - Xynova - Hand
• ROBOTIS HX5-D20 - ROBOTIS - Robotic Hand
• DexHand021 MP - DexRobot - Hand
• Mand.ro Mark 7 Hand - Mand.ro - Robotic Hand
• TetherIA Aero Hand Open - TetherIA - Robotic Hand
• Realhand O6 - RealHand - Dexterous Hand