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Robot Hands Feature

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.

Healthcare / Prosthetics application
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Healthcare / Prosthetics

Use EMG, tactile, and force sensing in prosthetics, rehabilitation, and care-support interfaces.

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Research / Special Environments application
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Research / Special Environments

Explore inaccessible environments and new manipulation policies through teleoperation, imitation, and reinforcement learning.

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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
DexRobot DexHand021 Pro multi-finger robot hand
Proximity >1 cmFinger & palm sensing
22 DoFDual-tendon transmission
0.6 s open-closeCoreless motor drive
DexHand021 Pro — listed in this featureProduct details →
MARKET TREND

Global dexterous-hand market

2024: 92.7M USD2025: 164M USD2026: 290M USD2027: 514M USD2028: 910M USD2029: 1610M USD2030: 2850M USD2031: 5037M USD$92.7M$5.04B20242031

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).

Featured Makers

Compare each maker's focus, company profile, and representative products.

Linkerbot

3 款产品

From 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 款产品

Connect 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 款产品

Industrial 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 款产品

Apply 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 款产品

A 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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Track records and partnerships are based on information published by each company.