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Precision Assembly
Handle small or irregular parts for assembly, tool use, and other human-like process steps.
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Where AI touches the real world.
Human-like dexterity expands what robots can do.
At a glance
Four application fields for robot hands
Compare the role of robot hands across industry, healthcare, services, and advanced research.
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Healthcare / Prosthetics
Use EMG, tactile, and force sensing in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and care-support interfaces.
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Service / Daily Assistance
Give service robots the ability to handle human tools and everyday objects.
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Research / Special Environments
Explore inaccessible environments and new manipulation policies through teleoperation, imitation, and reinforcement learning.
View candidates4 products →Overview & Market
What are robot hands — and why investment is pouring into them
A robot hand is the end effector that grasps and manipulates at the tip of an arm or humanoid. Robots working with human tools in human environments need dexterous hands, and the rise of humanoids and embodied AI has made the hand a core component alongside the robot itself. Entry points already span research, education, AI training-data collection, and production and logistics work.
- Multi-finger hands
- Human-like joints handle tools and irregular objects
- Two-finger grippers
- Fast, reliable grasping of defined parts on industrial lines
- Tactile & force sensing × AI
- Fine work once limited to human hands becomes automatable
Proximity >1 cmFinger & palm sensing
22 DoFDual-tendon transmission
0.6 s open-closeCoreless motor drive
MARKET TREND
Global dexterous-hand market
Growing at 68.7% CAGR (interim years interpolated from the growth rate)
- Dexterous-hand market CAGR
- 68.7%QYResearch, 2025–2031 forecast
- Humanoid-robot market driving demand, by 2035
- $50.27BMarketsandMarkets, 28.1% CAGR
Market sizes and growth rates are published forecasts by QYResearch and MarketsandMarkets (checked July 2026).
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See robot-hand dexterity in action
Explore cooking, grasping, and teleoperation. Choose a demo to watch.
Dexterity in the kitchen: tools and delicate ingredients
Cutting tofu, handling cucumber, and plating food: watch the hands and humanoid work together through familiar cooking tasks.
From finger motion to grasping and teleoperation
Explore coordinated finger motion, grasping cups and bottles, and teleoperation, with examples of different objects and control methods.
Featured Makers
Compare each maker's focus, company profile, and representative products.
Linkerbot
2 productsFrom six-active-DoF models to higher-dexterity hands, teleoperation, and data collection.
Company Profile
Founded in 2023 in Beijing, Linkerbot combines high-DOF dexterous hands with teleoperation and data systems for embodied AI.
Official website ↗- Founded
- 2023
- Headquarters
- Jingyi Technology Building, Dazhongsi East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, ChinaGoogle Maps ↗
Strength
Application-specific multi-finger hands with 11–21 total DoF
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Product range spanning linkage and tendon transmissions
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Data collection with an exoskeleton glove and teleoperation arm
DexRobot
3 productsConnect dexterous manipulation and learning data through tactile, force, and vision sensing.
Company Profile
Founded in 2024, DexRobot develops dexterous robotic hands, robots, and data-collection platforms, with headquarters and manufacturing in Shaoxing and R&D in Shanghai.
Official website ↗- Founded
- 2024
- Headquarters
- Shaoxing, Zhejiang, China (R&D center: Shanghai)Google Maps ↗
Strength
DexHand range from three-finger to integrated wrist-hand designs
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Multimodal position, tactile, force, and proximity sensing
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Development platform with SDKs, simulation, and teleoperation
Published track record Its official company introduction lists China Post, Xiaomi, NVIDIA, and others as partners.
ChangingTech（知行机器人）
2 productsIndustrial two-finger grippers with practical payload, stroke, and speed choices.
Company Profile
Founded in 2018 in Taicang, Jiangsu, ChangingTech develops and manufactures collaborative, parallel, dexterous, and heavy-duty robot grippers and embodied-intelligence robots.
Official website ↗- Founded
- 2018
- Headquarters
- Building 18, Technovation Valley, No. 99 Fuda Road, Taicang, Jiangsu, ChinaGoogle Maps ↗
Strength
Practical industrial lineup centered on parallel gripping
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Multiple sizes by stroke and payload
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Straightforward integration for assembly and machine tending
OYMotion（傲意科技）
2 productsApply EMG sensing and bionic technology to multi-finger robot hands.
Company Profile
Founded in 2015 in Shanghai Zhangjiang, OYMotion develops brain-computer interfaces, EMG/EEG sensing, rehabilitation robots, bionic hands, and dexterous robotic hands.
Official website ↗- Founded
- 2015
- Headquarters
- No. 788, Lane 100, Banxia Road, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, ChinaGoogle Maps ↗
Strength
Control technology grounded in EMG and EEG analysis
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Experience spanning prosthetics, rehabilitation, and robotics
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ROH models with varied DoF and sensing configurations
Shadow Robot Company
1 productsA long-established research hand specialist focused on dexterity, touch, and teleoperation.
Company Profile
Headquartered in London, Shadow Robot has developed high-dexterity robot hands, tactile sensing, and teleoperation systems for research and industry for over two decades.
Official website ↗- Headquarters
- Unit 31 Spectrum House, 32-34 Gordon House Road, London NW5 1LP, UKGoogle Maps ↗
Strength
High-DoF multi-finger manipulation modeled on the human hand
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Research platform with tactile sensing and ROS
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Systems designed for reinforcement learning and teleoperation
Published track record Shadow Robot co-developed DEX-EE with Google DeepMind for demanding, long-running machine-learning experiments.
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