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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 CNY4.5B+ cumulative financing and CNY22B valuation - Named investors include Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com, Transsion, Sequoia China, Qiming Venture Partners, Meituan DragonBall and Guanghe Venture Capital. The company said the capital supports core technology development, recruitment and the transition of… - 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 - 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 2026-06-15 - Research Publication - CAIP study evaluates dual Sharpa Wave hands across six manipulation tasks - The setup paired Dexmate Vega arms with two 22-DoF Wave hands, a ZED X Mini head camera and two ZED X One wrist cameras. CAIP used 200 demonstrations per task, with 150 for pouring, and exceeded the strongest reported baseline by more than 30 percentage… - source: arxiv.org 2026-06-01 - Product Launch - Unitree announces H2 Plus as NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid for academic research - Unitree announced H2 Plus, a humanoid reference design built on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T development platform for academic and humanoid robotics research. The system combines a Unitree H2 humanoid chassis, Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Jetson… - 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 2026-03-09 - Research Publication - MoDE-VLA study evaluates contact-rich manipulation with Sharpa Wave - IMCopilot supplied reinforcement-learning skills for in-hand rotation during data collection and execution. MoDE-VLA separated visual, force and tactile processing and reported a 73% peel-completion ratio on repeated apple-peeling cycles. - source: arxiv.org 2026-02-18 - Research Publication - SimToolReal: An Object-Centric Policy for Zero-Shot Dexterous Tool Manipulation - The evaluation covered 120 physical rollouts across 24 tasks, 12 objects and six tool categories. The object-centric policy exceeded retargeting and fixed-grasp baselines by 37% while requiring no object- or task-specific training at test time. - source: arxiv.org 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 View Sharpa overview