Dexterous Hands
Multi-fingered robot hands and grippers — tendon versus direct drive, fingertip sensing, and the cost of human-like dexterity.
Coverage (13 articles)
- 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
- 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
- 1X NEO Hands: 25-DoF Tendon-Driven Dexterity Breakthrough — 1X Technologies has built 25-degree-of-freedom tendon-driven hands for its NEO humanoid that approach human dexterity. The hands are waterproof, sense forces di
- 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
- Tesla Optimus Gen 3 Hand Patents Expose Forearm Actuator Bottlenecks — Recent Tesla patent filings detail the Optimus Gen 3 hand's tendon-driven architecture with actuators consolidated in the forearm. This design introduces critic
- 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
- π0 VLA Flow Model: Zero-Shot Dexterous Manipulation at Scale — Physical Intelligence's π0 (2024-2025) advances VLA models with flow-matching architectures, delivering superior zero-shot generalization on benchmarks like LIB
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