CasiaHand vs PSYONIC: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

PSYONIC ranks 57 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 63; CasiaHand ranks 60 with 62. CasiaHand is ahead on firepower. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. CasiaHand is based in China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. CasiaHand is named in 6 signals and PSYONIC in 51.

CasiaHand →

China · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · casiahand.com

CasiaHand develops and supplies Linker Hand dexterous hands using tendon-driven, linkage-driven and direct-drive architectures. These are manipulation components for humanoid and embodied-intelligence robots.

Humanoids 100 · rank 60 · score 62Robotics · prospect · score 28

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment4
Production6
Commercials4
Progress8
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower6
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

CasiaHand is a Chinese dexterous-hand maker (from CASIA research lineage) selling a 15-DoF tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with a published design and benchmark, scaling production via a Fulai New Materials partnership toward ~30,000 units a year by end-2026. It disclosed cumulative H1-2026 orders exceeding RMB 100M and showcased a full stack at WRC 2026. It combines a CAS-institute research pedigree with a tactile-manufacturing partner and a nine-figure order book.

Latest signals

  • Linkerbot products have been deployed in industrial manufacturing, logistics sorting and embodied retail scenarios.Leiphone 雷峰网
  • LinkerBot built a Linker Hand dexterous hand product line covering tendon-driven, linkage-driven and direct-drive designs.Leiphone 雷峰网
  • Linkerbot launched UMI-Dex, an open-source dexterous manipulation data collection solution.Leiphone 雷峰网

6 signals name CasiaHand.

Facts, with sources

  • 20余家产业链企业成立中国具身智能Tier1产业联盟Leiphone 雷峰网
  • 灵心巧手的产品已部署于工业制造、物流分拣和具身零售等场景Leiphone 雷峰网
  • 灵心巧手推出UMI-Dex开源灵巧操作数据采集方案Leiphone 雷峰网

32 facts on file.

PSYONIC →

Champaign, Illinois, United States · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · psyonic.io

PSYONIC supplies multi-degree-of-freedom robotic hands and is developing integrations with humanoid and general-purpose robot platforms for manipulation.

Humanoids 100 · rank 57 · score 63Robotics · watchlist · score 54

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production6
Commercials4
Progress9
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower4
Leverage6

Darker bar: ahead of the other company on that measure.

Positioning

PSYONIC is a US maker of the Ability Hand, a prosthetic-validated bionic hand (Medicare-covered, drop-tested, with touch feedback) crossing into robotics with customers including NASA and Meta, shipping in production for years. It is named the leader in prosthetic-derived validation, the only hands player whose product passes daily human-life reliability testing. Revenue is estimated at <25m (a crowdfunding-heavy cap table).

Latest signals

  • Arm launched Arm Total Design for Physical AI with more than 80 ecosystem companies.Arm
  • RoboBusiness 2026 announced keynote programming on production AI, humanoids, and the next generation of robotics.The Robot Report
  • Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027 will bring Chinese robot makers together with European industrial and software organizations.humanoid.guide

51 signals name PSYONIC.

Facts, with sources

  • ABB Robotics GoFa collaborative robotPSYONIC
  • Collaboration with NVIDIA and ABB to use Ability Hand movement, contact, and grip-force data for robotic manipulation and physical AIPSYONIC
  • Ability Hand integrated directly into NVIDIA Isaac Lab open-source framework for robot learningPSYONIC

63 facts on file.

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CasiaHand or PSYONIC: which is ahead in humanoids?

PSYONIC ranks 57 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 63; CasiaHand ranks 60 with 62. CasiaHand is ahead on firepower. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. CasiaHand is based in China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. CasiaHand is named in 6 signals and PSYONIC in 51.

How do CasiaHand and PSYONIC compare?

PSYONIC ranks 57 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 63; CasiaHand ranks 60 with 62. CasiaHand is ahead on firepower. PSYONIC is ahead on deployment and progress. Level on production, commercials, technology, positioning and leverage. CasiaHand is based in China, PSYONIC in Champaign, United States. CasiaHand is named in 6 signals and PSYONIC in 51. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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