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Its reference-design win is decisive: NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid (Computex 2026) is built on a Unitree H2 chassis with Sharpa Wave hands, the first dexterous reference design on the GR00T platform, with lab partners including NVIDIA, Google, MIT, and Stanford. Revenue is estimated at 10-100m (early orders from global technology firms).","sub_category":"General-purpose","signals_total":85,"url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/sharpa","title":"Sharpa · humanoids, Singapore, Singapore · scores, facts and signals · Frontier Tech Intelligence","description":"Sharpa sells North, a general-purpose humanoid robot, to enterprise operators for autonomous service and dexterous manipulation. Humanoids 100 rank 11 (score 84) 85 signals and 78 facts with sources.","publisher":"Frontier Tech Intelligence (Future Frontiers, a trade name of Essential Cognition Inc.)","note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}