Unitree Dex5-1
About
About Unitree Dex5-1
Unitree Dex5-1 is a five-finger dexterous hand for humanoid development and manipulation research. It provides 20 total degrees of freedom through 16 active and four coupled joints, weighs 1.1 kilograms and uses USB 2.0 communication with control rates up to 1,000 hertz.
Unitree specifies 10-newton fingertip force and 3.5- or 4.5-kilogram load ratings for different configurations. Dex5-1 does not include the tactile-sensor array offered on the Dex5-1P variant.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Capability areas: Robotic grasping, Dexterous manipulation
- Workflows: End-effector manipulation
- Operating environments: Unitree humanoids, humanoid research platforms, manipulation labs and teleoperation testbeds
- Target markets: Teams evaluating off-the-shelf tactile hand modules for Unitree or adjacent humanoid/research platforms.
- Deployment model: Commercial robotic-hand component for Unitree and adjacent humanoid or research-platform integration.
- Tactile interaction sensing
Claimed - Unitree presents Dex5-1 for multi-finger manipulation with optional distributed tactile sensing.
Source - Robotic grasping
Claimed - Unitree presents Dex5-1 for multi-finger manipulation with optional distributed tactile sensing.
Source - Dexterous manipulation
Claimed - Unitree presents Dex5-1 for multi-finger manipulation with optional distributed tactile sensing.
Source
Context
Market context
Five-finger Unitree hand component with tactile sensing and a published 20-DoF / 16-active-DoF architecture.
- Target environment: Unitree humanoids, humanoid research platforms, manipulation labs and teleoperation testbeds
- Workflow context: Robot hand integration, dexterous grasping, tactile interaction and manipulation experiments
- Customer context: Teams evaluating off-the-shelf tactile hand modules for Unitree or adjacent humanoid/research platforms.
- Deployment model: Commercial robotic-hand component for Unitree and adjacent humanoid or research-platform integration.
- Commercial maturity: Commercially visible product page; ordering route and integration package should be confirmed with Unitree.
- Adoption constraints: Integration depends on controller support, mounting, software access and target robot compatibility.
- Adjacent products: Wuji Hand, DexH13, AIDIN-Hand, IH2 Azzurra, qb SoftHand2 Research
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