A dexterous hand that stands up and does pull-ups! 😮‍💨 This is Handroid that is a gripper that can transform into a little humanoid robot. It was developed across teams from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Stanford University. It looks like The Thing and I'm totally obsessed with it! 🫳🏼 It's a desktop-scale robot with 27 degrees of freedom that runs as a dexterous hand when manipulation is needed, and as a humanoid when locomotion is the prio. The secret sauce is in the morphology. The finger joints double as humanoid limbs, and the same compact actuator modules get reassigned across fingers, arms, legs and base actuation. P.S. Imagine your grippers being able to come down and start pushing things :D 🔗 Here's the project page: ~~ ♻️ Join the weekly robotics newsletter, and never miss any news →

Teams put dexterous robotic hands to the test in a bean-picking competition at Beijing's World Humanoid Robot Games, as developers seek to move the technology closer to practical, real-world applications

UBS HUMANOID ROBOT SUPPLY CHAIN • Dexterous Hands (Sensing): $VPG • Actuators (Joints): $ADI, $MCHP, $TXN • OEM Makers (Robots): $TSLA, $CCXI, $XPEV, $TER • Perception (Head): $OUST, $SONY, $CGNX, $ON, $AMBA • Computing (Brain): $NVDA, $AMD, $QCOM, $INTC, $SITM, $MU

A bidirectional teleoperation system for dexterous robot hands. It lets you control a robot hand, and the robot hand can also move your hand. When the robot makes a mistake, it first moves your hand to match its position. That way you can take over smoothly without dropping the object. These corrections help the AI get better. It works with different robot hands, gets better results than regular gloves, and comes with a paper and a dataset. Thanks for sharing, Zhanpeng He (@zhanpeng_he) 📌 Paper: Website: —— Into robotics and AI? Subscribe free:

Unitree Introducing: Unitree Dex5-S Dexterous Hand 22 Degrees of Freedom 1:1 Real-Hand Size👋 Precision biomimetic dexterous hand, price from $6.5K (Tax and Shipping cost excluded), with all 22 joints supporting smooth backdrivability, and each joint equipped with limit impact torque protection.

🦾 Humanoid Robot Hands: The Costliest Battle in Physical AI. Dexterous hands are the most expensive module in humanoid robots. Three technical routes are emerging: screw-linkage, tendon-biomimetic, and high-perception sensing. Tesla pursues in-house precision manufacturing, though mass-production readiness remains unproven. 1X targets homes with tactile tendon designs. Who wins the dexterous hand race 👉 #TrendForce# #SelectedTopics#

From World Robot Conference 2026 in Beijing: Xynova demonstrated dexterous hand teleoperation using @ManusMeta gloves, translating the operator’s hand movements into real-time robotic control with high-fidelity hand motion data. #WRC2026# #robotics# #teleoperation# #DexterousManipulation# #PhysicalAI#