LinkerBot vs Sharpa: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; LinkerBot ranks 19 with 78. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment and production. Sharpa is ahead on technology, firepower and leverage. Level on commercials, progress and positioning. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Sharpa in 85.

LinkerBot →

Beijing, Beijing, China · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · linkerbot.ai

LinkerBot (灵心巧手) develops and sells dexterous robotic hands and related manipulation hardware for embodied-intelligence and humanoid-robot applications.

Humanoids 100 · rank 19 · score 78Robotics · prospect · score 25

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment8
Production10
Commercials6
Progress10
Technology8
Positioning8
Firepower6
Leverage6

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

Positioning

LinkerBot is a Chinese maker of high-degree-of-freedom robotic hands, the only one mass-producing more than 1,000 high-DoF hands a month (capacity over 4,000/month across four factories) and claiming over 80% of global high-DoF hand volume; it shipped its 10,000th hand in December 2025 and targets 50,000-100,000 units in 2026. Customers include Samsung and Siemens plus research at Stanford, MIT, Cambridge, and Tsinghua, and it raised across four rounds in eight months (Series B ~$200M in February 2026, Series B+ at a $3B valuation in late April 2026, and a reported $6B round being sought). Revenue and the company-disclosed market-share figure are unverified, and the founding year is disputed (2019 vs 2023).

Latest signals

  • LINKERBOT’s Linker Hand L30 Pro receives a Humanoid.Guide Hand Score of 7/10.humanoid.guide
  • LinkerBot’s Linker Hand L20 receives a 6/10 Humanoid.Guide score.humanoid.guide
  • LINKERBOT’s Linker Hand O30 receives a Humanoid.Guide score of 7/10.humanoid.guide

34 signals name LinkerBot.

Facts, with sources

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9 facts on file.

Sharpa →

Singapore, Singapore · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · private · sharpa.com

Sharpa sells North, a general-purpose humanoid robot, to enterprise operators for autonomous service and dexterous manipulation.

Humanoids 100 · rank 11 · score 84AI Core · watchlist · score 60Robotics · member · score 60

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment7
Production8
Commercials6
Progress10
Technology10
Positioning8
Firepower7
Leverage10

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

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).

Latest signals

  • Sharpa unveiled the D01 tactile robot with whole-body electronic skin at IROS 2026.Pandaily
  • Sharpa launched the W02 dexterous hand with 21 active degrees of freedom.Pandaily
  • Wave W02 robotic hand launched by Sharpa Roboticshumanoid.guide

85 signals name Sharpa.

Facts, with sources

  • Sharpa unveiled W02, a fully tactile, ultra-compact, lightweight dexterous hand.sharpa.com
  • Sharpa unveiled D01, W02 dexterous hand, and AE01 haptic exoskeleton data glove at IROS 2026.sharpa.com
  • Markov Robotics' rig uses Sharpa's 22-DoF SharpaWave hand with high-resolution tactile sensingHumanoids Daily

78 facts on file.

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LinkerBot or Sharpa: which is ahead in humanoids?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; LinkerBot ranks 19 with 78. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment and production. Sharpa is ahead on technology, firepower and leverage. Level on commercials, progress and positioning. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Sharpa in 85.

How do LinkerBot and Sharpa compare?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; LinkerBot ranks 19 with 78. LinkerBot is ahead on deployment and production. Sharpa is ahead on technology, firepower and leverage. Level on commercials, progress and positioning. LinkerBot is based in Beijing, China, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. LinkerBot is named in 34 signals and Sharpa in 85. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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