Facts

• Company: Unitree
• Product type: Robotic Hand
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Dexterous Robotic Hand
• Website: https://unitree-robot.com/mobile/Dex5-1/index.html

Profile sections

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

Summary

Unitree Dex5-1 is a five-finger dexterous robotic hand for humanoid platforms. It is designed for high-performance manipulation, with multi-finger motion, tactile sensing options and compatibility with Unitree humanoid development workflows.

Overview

Unitree Dex5-1 is a five-finger dexterous robotic hand for humanoid platforms. It is designed for high-performance manipulation, with multi-finger motion, tactile sensing options and compatibility with Unitree humanoid development workflows.

Market context

Five-finger Unitree hand component with tactile sensing and a published 20-DoF / 16-active-DoF architecture.

• Target environment: Unitree humanoids, humanoid research platforms, manipulation labs and teleoperation testbeds
• Workflow context: Robot hand integration, dexterous grasping, tactile interaction and manipulation experiments
• Customer context: Teams evaluating off-the-shelf tactile hand modules for Unitree or adjacent humanoid/research platforms.
• Deployment model: Commercial robotic-hand component for Unitree and adjacent humanoid or research-platform integration.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially visible product page; ordering route and integration package should be confirmed with Unitree.
• Adoption constraints: Integration depends on controller support, mounting, software access and target robot compatibility.
• Adjacent products: Wuji Hand, DexH13, AIDIN-Hand, IH2 Azzurra, qb SoftHand2 Research

Audience

Robot OEMs

Workflow

Robot hand integration, dexterous grasping, tactile interaction and manipulation experiments

Capability

dexterous robotic hand

Deployment environment

Unitree humanoids, humanoid research platforms, manipulation labs and teleoperation testbeds

Positioning tags

• Audience: Robot OEMs
• Workflow: Robot hand integration, dexterous grasping, tactile interaction and manipulation experiments
• Capability: dexterous robotic hand
• Deployment environment: Unitree humanoids, humanoid research platforms, manipulation labs and teleoperation testbeds

Specifications

• Total Degrees Of Freedom: 20 DoF
• Active Degrees Of Freedom: 16 DoF
• Passive Degrees Of Freedom: 4 DoF
• Tactile Sensors: 94 per hand
• Replaceable Fingers: All five fingers can be replaced independently
• Weight: 1.1 kg kg
• Body Size: 202 x 94 x 47 mm
• Fingertip Strength: 10 N N
• Repeat Positioning Accuracy: 0.05 mm mm
• Power Supply: 24 V DC V
• Communication: EtherCAT, RS485

Tags

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

Record / Articles

• 2026-04-18 - Note - This Week in Humanoid Robotics
• 2026-04-12 - Note - China’s humanoid push is moving into production
• 2026-03-20 - Article - Unitree files for Shanghai IPO as humanoid revenue overtakes quadrupeds

Comparable Systems

• OmniHand Pro 2025 - AGILINK - Hand
• OrcaHand Touch - ORCA Dexterity - Hand
• ROH-AP002 - OYMotion - Hand
• DexH13 - PaXini Perception Technology (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd. - Robotic Hand
• RH56E2 - Inspire Robots - End Effector
• OmniHand 2025 - AGILINK - Hand
• Ability Hand - PSYONIC - Hand
• DEX-EE Hand - Shadow Robot - Hand