PSYONIC vs Sharpa: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Sharpa in 85.

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.

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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PSYONIC or Sharpa: which is ahead in humanoids?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 signals and Sharpa in 85.

How do PSYONIC and Sharpa compare?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; PSYONIC ranks 57 with 63. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. PSYONIC is based in Champaign, United States, Sharpa in Singapore, Singapore. Sharpa: private. PSYONIC is named in 51 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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