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Sharpa North

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About Sharpa North

Sharpa North is a full-body humanoid for coordinated manipulation and embodied-AI development. Its 67-degree-of-freedom architecture combines upper-body movement with Sharpa Wave dexterous hands, using visual and tactile feedback to handle thin, flexible and contact-sensitive objects. The platform is designed for sequences that require both arms to work together over an extended task.

At CES 2026, Sharpa demonstrated autonomous table tennis, camera handling, card dealing and a paper-windmill assembly sequence of more than 30 steps. The demonstrations combined perception, reasoning and manipulation in live exhibition conditions. Sharpa targets service, manufacturing and research applications, including collecting manipulation data and deploying new robot policies. North is offered through direct enquiries for teams developing those applications and exploring autonomous handling in varied environments.

28 SEPT 2026

Sharpa launches D01 teleoperated humanoid platform

30 AUG 2026

Robotics capital moves — 24–30 August 2026

06 JAN 2026

Sharpa unveils North humanoid and SharpaWave hand at CES 2026

Capabilities

Source-backed capabilities

  • Operating environments: CES2026 LasVegas demonstration
  • Control modes: Autonomous
  • Dexterous manipulation

    Demonstrated - 2026-01-06 - Extract individual cards from a deck and deal them. - environment: CES2026 LasVegas demonstration

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  • Table-tennis play

    Demonstrated - 2026-01-06 - Rally in table tennis during the live demonstration. - environment: CES2026 LasVegas demonstration

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  • Robotic assembly

    Demonstrated - 2026-01-06 - Build a paper windmill through a sequence of more than30 steps. - environment: CES2026 LasVegas demonstration

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Research

  • FTP-1: A Generalist Foundation Tactile Policy Across Tactile Sensors for Contact-Rich Manipulation

    2026-06-11 - Research Publication - FTP-1 trains a generalist tactile policy across heterogeneous sensors and embodiments using about 3,000 hours from 26 data sources. Physical evaluations include Sharpa North and a Sharpa-equipped Dexmate platform, alongside a separate simulated benchmark.

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Context

Market context

Sharpa North is a semi-humanoid platform for autonomous dexterous manipulation, combining coordinated upper-body movement with tactile hands.

  • Target environment: Food-service workplaces, manufacturing and assembly settings, and robotics laboratories.
  • Workflow context: Multi-step bimanual object handling, tool use and manipulation-policy development. Sharpa reports food-service work at a DQ store in Shanghai.
  • Customer context: Service operators, manufacturing automation teams and embodied-AI researchers.
  • Deployment model: Project-based integration into existing workstations and service workflows.
  • Commercial maturity: Manufacturer-reported operation at a named DQ store in Shanghai, launched in August 2026; broader hardware availability is not established.
  • Adoption constraints: Task-specific integration, operating safety and sustained reliability in the target workflow.
  • Market position: Dexterous manipulation platform for tasks using existing human tools and workspaces.

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