{"title":"Sharpa vs Tesollo: Manipulation compared","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/compare/sharpa-vs-tesollo","comparison":"Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; Tesollo ranks 40 with 66. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, production, commercials, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Sharpa is based in Singapore, Singapore, Tesollo in South Korea. Sharpa: private. Sharpa is named in 85 signals and Tesollo in 21.","companies":[{"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},{"name":"Tesollo","url":"https://www.frontiertechintelligence.com/companies/tesollo","city":null,"country":"South Korea","stage":null,"founded":null,"last_round":null,"positioning":"Tesollo is a South Korean maker of dexterous robotic hands (the 20-DoF DG-5F-M flagship and the lower-cost DG-5F-S with in-house actuators), on a gripper revenue base since 2019. It initiated an IPO process in July 2026, which would be the first pure-play hands listing, and integrated XELA uSkin tactile sensing shown at CES 2026, with demos at ICRA 2026. Revenue, the IPO venue and timing, and humanoid OEM design wins are open; its own coverage notes no hand maker is near a certified 10,000-hour mean-time-between-repairs.","assessed_in":{"domain":"Humanoids","list":"Humanoids 100","rank":40,"score":66,"tier":"member","scores":{"gate_ne":["firepower"],"leverage":6,"position":6,"progress":9,"firepower":6,"commercial":4,"deployment":6,"production":6,"technology":8},"why":"Tesollo develops humanoid and robotic hands used as manipulation components, including a humanoid robot hand demonstrated at the 2025 World IT Show.","segment":"Manipulation","layer":"Components"},"signals_total":21,"facts_total":19}],"note":"Assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence; facts and signals carry their sources."}