Product profile
Unitree Dex5-1
Unitree Dex5-1 is a five-finger dexterous robotic hand for humanoid platforms. It is designed for high-performance manipulation, with multi-finger motion,...
Facts
- Company
- Unitree
- Product type
- robotic_hand
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- dexterous robotic hand
- Website
- https://www.unitree.com/Dex5-1/
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.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Robot hand
Core: Dexterous fingers
Function: Manipulation
Audience: Robot OEMs
Specifications
- active_degrees_of_freedom
- 16 DoF
- body_size
- 202 x 94 x 47 mm
- communication
- EtherCAT, RS485
- degrees_of_freedom
- 20 DoF (16 active + 4) DoF
- fingertip_force
- 10 N N
- fingertip_strength
- 10 N N
- maximum_grasp_load
- 4.5 kg with palm facing left kg
- passive_degrees_of_freedom
- 4 DoF
- power_supply
- 24 V DC V
- repeat_positioning_accuracy
- 0.05 mm mm
- replaceable_fingers
- All five fingers can be replaced independently
- tactile_sensors
- 94 per hand
- tactile_sensors_dex5_1p
- 94 pressure sensors per hand sensors
- total_degrees_of_freedom
- 20 DoF
- weight_kg
- 1.1 kg kg
Operations
- Product detail
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Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Noitom releases the HiPHI motion and interaction dataset — 2026-08-19
- Unitree begins trading on Shanghai STAR Market — 2026-08-19
- Hesai discloses new humanoid lidar orders and actuation shipments — 2026-08-18
- Unitree reveals high-speed “Superhuman” humanoid prototype — 2026-08-17
- Unitree reports approximately 18,000 bionic bipedal humanoids produced — 2026-08-12
- DeepSeek invests RMB140.8 million through Unitree IPO placement — 2026-08-06
- Unitree sponsor issues RMB50.6-55.9 billion post-IPO valuation guidance — 2026-08-04
- Unitree Robotics launches STAR Market share issuance — 2026-07-30