China’s Dexterous-Hand Suppliers Are Becoming Unicorns - 2026-07-17 - Article - Xynova’s second major financing in seven weeks adds to a surge of capital, production capacity and standalone suppliers around one of the humanoid’s most difficult components.
It’s all in the hands - 2026-05-17 - Article - Recent dexterous-hand developments cover production scale, new hardware, learned control and data collection for contact-rich manipulation.
Research
DexNinja: Learning Robust Dexterous Cutting Policy with a Real-to-Sim-to-Real Data Engine - 2026-10-12 - Research Publication - DexNinja combines limited real demonstrations, reconstructed food assets and differentiable cutting simulation to train tactile dexterous policies. Experiments study food slicing and transfer across two bimanual… - source: arxiv.org
UniDexTok: A Unified Dexterous Hand Tokenizer from Real Data - 2026-06-09 - Research Publication - UniDexTok learns a shared semantic state representation from real data across heterogeneous dexterous hands, including LinkerHand L10 and L20. The paper reports sub-millimetre reconstruction and strong zero- and few-shot… - source: arxiv.org
FSAG: Enhancing Human-to-Dexterous-Hand Finger-Specific Affordance Grounding via Diffusion Models - 2026-01-13 - Research Publication - FSAG transfers finger-specific semantic grasp targets from human video to physical dexterous hands without per-hand retraining. The paper evaluates real grasping on Linker Hand L20 and reports strong cross-hand and… - source: arxiv.org