Dexterous Hands
Multi-fingered robot hands and grippers — tendon versus direct drive, fingertip sensing, and the cost of human-like dexterity.
Coverage (16 articles)
- AGIBOT AHA3 Platform and Worken Metric Launch at Innovation Day — AGIBOT unveiled its AHA3 humanoid hardware platform with liquid-cooled IP67 joints and OmniHand 3 dexterous hands at its October 29 Innovation Day in Shanghai.
- Tesla Optimus Hand Durability and Magnet Supply Issues Slow Ramp — Elon Musk addressed ongoing Tesla Optimus hand engineering problems during an October 10 interview at the X Takeover event. China's 2025 rare-earth magnet expor
- Boston Dynamics Atlas GR3 Hand: 13-DOF Specs for Tool Use — Boston Dynamics unveiled the GR3 hand for its electric Atlas humanoid on October 1, 2026. The four-fingered design delivers 13 degrees of freedom with direct ac
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics 2 Scales via Software Partnerships — Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2 on July 30, 2026, delivering vision-language-action models for whole-body humanoid control, dexterity, and multi-robo
- Tesla Optimus Hits Hundreds Weekly at Fremont as Hand Assembly Bottleneck — Tesla scaled Optimus V3 output at Fremont from dozens per week in Q2 to several hundred in August 2026 by converting former Model S/X lines. Most units stay in
- Tesla Optimus Fremont Line Encounters Battery and Integration Snags — Tesla activated its converted Model S/X assembly line at the Fremont factory for Optimus production in late July or August 2026. Early low-volume output for int
- 1X NEO Hands: 25-DoF Tendon Upgrade Targets Home Dexterity — 1X Technologies unveiled 25-DoF tendon-driven hands for its NEO humanoid on July 9, 2026. The design adds force-controlled joints and tactile sensing to support
- Musk: Optimus Hardest Product Tesla Has Ever Scaled — During Tesla's Q2 2026 earnings call on July 22, Elon Musk stated that Optimus will be the hardest product the company has ever scaled for manufacturing. Tesla
- SimTac & DexSkin: Biomorphic Tactile Arrays and Hybrid MPC for Sim-to-Real — November 2025 arXiv paper SimTac (Zhang et al., King’s College London/BIT) introduces a physics-based MPM simulator for vision-based biomorphic tactile sensors
- Pi0.7 and Helix: VLA Transformers Advance Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation — Physical Intelligence's π₀.7 (April 2026) and Figure AI's Helix (February 2025) represent state-of-the-art Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models, achieving open-w
- Tesollo IPO: DG-5F Hands Scale Humanoid Dexterity Supply Chain — South Korea's Tesollo advances its 2027 IPO after Series B funding from POSCO and HL Mando, scaling DG-5F 20-DoF robotic hands to solve humanoid dexterity bottl
- ICRA 2026 Chinese Humanoids: All-Terrain Emotional Dexterous Robots — ICRA 2026 in Vienna spotlighted breakthrough Chinese humanoid platforms with all-terrain mobility, soft shapeshifting designs, advanced dexterous hands, emotion
- Proception.AI ProHand 1.0: Ex-Tesla Optimus Team Ships Dexterous Hands After… — Proception.AI raises $11M seed led by First Round Capital and ships ProHand 1.0 tendon-driven robotic hand plus ProGlove data platform after settling Tesla trad
- Skild AI's $1.4B Skild Brain: Omni-Bodied VLA Foundation Model — Skild AI closed a $1.4 billion Series C at over $14 billion valuation, led by SoftBank with NVIDIA's NVentures and Bezos Expeditions participating. The funding
- Robotera Lands $200M+ for China Post Logistics Humanoids — Beijing-based Robotera closed a $200M+ round led by SF Group to scale humanoid deployments in parcel sorting and industrial logistics. The M7 platform is alread
- OpenVLA 7B Advances Zero-Shot VLA Control Over RT-2 — OpenVLA's 7B-parameter Transformer delivers superior zero-shot generalization on LIBERO benchmarks compared to RT-2-X while enabling high-frequency neural feedb
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