{"title":"CasiaHand vs Sharpa: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/casiahand-vs-sharpa","comparison":"Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; CasiaHand ranks 60 with 62. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. CasiaHand is based in China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. CasiaHand is named in 6 signals and Sharpa in 85.","companies":[{"name":"CasiaHand","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/casiahand","city":null,"country":"China","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"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.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":60,"score":62,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":8,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":4,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"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.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":6,"facts_total":32},{"name":"Sharpa","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/sharpa","city":"Singapore","country":"Singapore","stage":"private","founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Sharpa (Singapore HQ, Shanghai manufacturing) is a self-described unicorn (founded 2024) making the SharpaWave dexterous hand (22 active DoF, >1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip, ~$50,000 per hand) in mass production since October 2025, plus the North full-body robot shown at CES 2026. 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).","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":11,"score":84,"tier":"member","scores":{"leverage":10,"position":8,"progress":10,"firepower":7,"commercial":6,"deployment":7,"production":8,"technology":10},"why":"Sharpa sells North, a general-purpose humanoid robot, to enterprise operators for autonomous service and dexterous manipulation.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":85,"facts_total":78}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}