Sharpa Timeline

Events

• 2026-10-19 - Research Publication - Sharpa coauthors Embodied Playground long-horizon robotics benchmark - The suites cover launching, Tower of Hanoi, interlocking assembly, cube manipulation and household tasks. EP-Easy and EP-Hard each contain 50 tasks; EP-20 provides a compact diagnostic subset. The released environment SDK supports MuJoCo, Isaac Lab and… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-10-12 - Market Signal - Sharpa outlines 30,000-robot commercial deployment target - The company intends to let operators collect small amounts of task data to adapt robots to their businesses. The approach emphasizes working in existing environments and sustaining continuous operation. Xiang described human demonstrations, simulation and… - source: thepaper.cn
• 2026-09-28 - Product Launch - Sharpa launches D01, W02 and AE01 tactile-manipulation platform products - D01 combines body electronic skin with arm-end speed above 10.5 m/s and 0.2 mm repeat positioning accuracy. W02 integrates 21 active degrees of freedom, visual fingertip tactile sensing and electronic skin across the rest of the hand. AE01 uses 22 encoders… - source: leiphone.com
• 2026-08-29 - Deployment - Sharpa robot begins live DQ Blizzard service in Shanghai - The robot handles cup retrieval, ingredient dispensing, mixing and inverted handoff without continuous teleoperation, using vision, touch and force feedback to correct errors. The disclosed cycle time is about six minutes per Blizzard, compared with roughly… - source: prnasia.com
• 2026-08-28 - Funding - Sharpa discloses RMB4.5B+ cumulative financing and RMB22B valuation - Named investors include Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com, Transsion, Sequoia China, Qiming Venture Partners, Meituan DragonBall and Guanghe Venture Capital. The disclosure covers cumulative financing rather than one current round, and no individual-round… - source: m.x-techcon.com
• 2026-08-19 - Product Launch - Sharpa launches Wave SE dexterous hand and opens pre-orders - Wave SE retains 22 independently actuated degrees of freedom in a human-scale hand intended for embodied-AI research and robot integration. The SE configuration is rated for a 24 kg payload, 90 N grip force, 12 N fingertip force and operation at 2 Hz. Its… - source: autonews.gasgoo.com
• 2026-08-18 - Demonstration - Visual Dexterity study combines YAM Pro arms and Sharpa Wave hands - MANUS gloves and Quest tracking teleoperated two YAM Pro arms fitted with Sharpa Wave hands. Three RealSense D405 cameras captured the real-world manipulation workspace. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-08-18 - Market Signal - Hesai discloses new humanoid lidar orders and actuation shipments - New robotics-lidar orders and JT128 adoption include Unitree, Robbyant, Galbot, Galaxea and Dexmal. After Kosmo prototype deliveries in July 2026, orders were secured from humanoid-robot companies including Galbot, with initial revenue expected in Q3. The… - source: investor.hesaitech.com
• 2026-06-01 - Product Launch - Unitree announces H2 Plus research reference humanoid - The configuration pairs an H2 chassis with dual Sharpa Wave five-finger hands and NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor T5000 onboard computing. Unitree targeted late-2026 availability; the platform covers demonstration capture, simulation, policy training, evaluation and… - source: prnewswire.com
• 2026-05-31 - Partnership - Sharpa Wave tactile hands join NVIDIA Isaac GR00T humanoid reference design - NVIDIA announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot using a Unitree H2 Plus body, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T software workflows. Sharpa Wave supplies dexterous tactile manipulation hardware for… - source: nvidianews.nvidia.com
• 2026-04-24 - Funding - Hesai filing discloses April 2025 CNY100M investment in Sharpa - Hesai made the investment indirectly through a partnership and recorded it as an equity security without a readily determinable fair value. Hesai sold its entire Sharpa stake to two independent third-party investors in August 2025 for RMB275.6 million, or… - source: sec.gov
• 2026-03-25 - Partnership - Hesai and Sharpa sign 2026 lidar and actuator supply framework - The agreement covers Hesai LiDAR products and robotic actuators supplied to Sharpa from 25 March through 31 December 2026. Actuator support may include ancillary-material procurement, manufacturing and assembly, testing, packaging and delivery for… - source: www1.hkexnews.hk
• 2026-03-11 - Research Publication - Sharpa's robot autonomously peels apple using dual dexterous hands - • At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Sharpa's newly debuted full-body robot, North, played fully autonomous ping-pong rallies with human opponents and ran live demonstrations for four straight days, eight hours a day. • The robot utilized Sharpa's dexterous robotic… - source: prnewswire.com
• 2026-03-09 - Demonstration - A MANUS demonstration teleoperated a simulated 22-DoF Sharpa Wave inside NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.3… - A MANUS demonstration teleoperated a simulated 22-DoF Sharpa Wave inside NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.3 and fed demonstrations into Isaac Lab Mimic. The relationship and configuration scope are limited to this named, dated programme. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-01-06 - Demonstration - Sharpa's North Robot Demonstrates Windmill Assembly at CES 2026 - • Sharpa unveiled its full-body robot, North, at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. • North autonomously assembled over 300 paper windmills during the event, each requiring more than 30 consecutive manipulation steps. • The demonstrations highlighted North's dexterous… - source: sharpa.com
• 2026-01-06 - Product Launch - Sharpa Robotics Introduces CraftNet VTLA Model for Fine Manipulation - Sharpa introduced CraftNet, a hierarchical vision-tactile-language-action model for fine manipulation. Its System 0 contact-control layer operates at about 100 Hz using tactile and force feedback. A CraftNet-powered North robot performed autonomous card… - source: sharpa.com