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.
Specifications
Total degrees of freedom: 67 manufacturer whole-body count
Hand Dof: 22 active per SharpaWave hand (Jan2026 launch configuration)
Sensor System: >1000 tactile pixels per fingertip (SharpaWave launch configuration)
Tactile Resolution: Sub-mm SharpaWave hand tactile resolution (Jan2026 configuration)