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PL-WitHand

About

About PL-WitHand

PL-WitHand is PL-Universe's five-finger dexterous hand for embodied robots and industrial manipulators. A tendon-linkage hybrid transmission provides 16 active and four coupled degrees of freedom, combining compliant grasping with repeatable positioning for handling objects of different sizes and shapes.

The 800-gram hand carries up to 10 kilograms and reaches ±0.20-millimetre finger repeatability. Fingertip tactile, vision, joint-angle and six-axis force sensing feed the ProxiGrasp control system, while ROS 2 support connects the hand to host arms and application software. PL-Universe supplies the integrated hand for research and applied manipulation, with task performance determined by the robot arm, perception stack and grasp policy.

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Capability areas: Robotic grasping, Dexterous manipulation
  • Workflows: End-effector manipulation
  • Operating environments: Industrial automation, embodied robots, collaborative robots and research platforms
  • Target markets: Buyers needing more industrial packaging and documented load/force figures than many research hands provide.
  • Deployment model: Commercial robotic-hand component for humanoid and manipulation research integration.
  • Robotic grasping

    Claimed - PL-Universe presents PL-WitHand as a 20-DoF industrial dexterous hand supplied with multiple end effectors.

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  • Dexterous manipulation

    Claimed - PL-Universe presents PL-WitHand as a 20-DoF industrial dexterous hand supplied with multiple end effectors.

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Timeline

  • PL-Universe launches ProWhite 2.0 and PL-WitHand

    2025-11-01 - Product Launch - Four additional end effectors targeted locking, dispensing, oiling and soldering. PL-WitHand used a tendon-linkage hybrid transmission and the company’s ProxiGrasp grasping algorithm. An exclusive global online sales partnership with JD.com covered sales, overseas expansion and service development.

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Context

Market context

Industrial-grade hybrid-driven dexterous hand with multimodal sensing.

  • Target environment: Industrial automation, embodied robots, collaborative robots and research platforms
  • Workflow context: Payload-aware dexterous grasping, force/tactile sensing and ROS 2 integration
  • Customer context: Buyers needing more industrial packaging and documented load/force figures than many research hands provide.
  • Deployment model: Commercial robotic-hand component for humanoid and manipulation research integration.
  • Commercial maturity: Commercial product page with public specifications.
  • Adoption constraints: Fit depends on mounting, control stack, supplier availability and task-specific grip-force needs.
  • Adjacent products: OpenDroids DH116, Inspire RH56BFX, ROBOTIS HX5-D20, Botyard DexMano D22-PRO

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