Sharpa vs YQ Bionics: Manipulation compared

November 2026 edition · assessment by Frontier Tech Intelligence

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production and commercials. Sharpa is based in Singapore, Singapore, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. Sharpa: private. YQ Bionics: private. Sharpa is named in 85 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.

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.

YQ Bionics →

Beijing, Beijing, China · Humanoids · Components / Manipulation · private · yqbionics.com

YQ Bionics manufactures and supplies dexterous robotic hands, a manipulation component for humanoid robots.

Humanoids 100 · rank 36 · score 68Robotics · prospect · score 36

Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production8
Commercials6
Progress8
Technology8
Positioning6
Firepower6
Leverage6

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

Positioning

Yuequan Bionics builds dexterous robotic hands on a bionic "tension-compression body" architecture — closer to musculoskeletal loading than conventional linkage hands — and is one of the few hand makers actually in mass production: 36kr reports 10,000 units produced and orders exceeding RMB 100M, alongside financing rounds in the hundreds of millions of yuan (including a Pre-A+). Hands are the acknowledged bottleneck component of the humanoid industry, and a supplier shipping at this volume with real order book is a strategic node: every humanoid maker that does not build hands in-house is a potential customer. This is the strongest components story in the discovered queue.

Facts, with sources

  • orders exceeding RMB 100M36kr
  • Pre-A+ round, hundreds of millions RMBGasgoo
  • 富维-月泉机器人应用实验室完成汽车座椅零部件生产、装配与检测场景的数据采集、具身智能大模型训练、测试迭代及部署全流程yqbionics.com

21 facts on file.

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Sharpa or YQ Bionics: which is ahead in humanoids?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production and commercials. Sharpa is based in Singapore, Singapore, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. Sharpa: private. YQ Bionics: private. Sharpa is named in 85 signals and YQ Bionics in 0.

How do Sharpa and YQ Bionics compare?

Sharpa ranks 11 on the Humanoids 100 with a score of 84; YQ Bionics ranks 36 with 68. Sharpa is ahead on deployment, progress, technology, positioning, firepower and leverage. Level on production and commercials. Sharpa is based in Singapore, Singapore, YQ Bionics in Beijing, China. Sharpa: private. YQ Bionics: private. Sharpa is named in 85 signals and YQ Bionics in 0. Both company files carry the scores on eight measures, the facts with sources and the latest signals.

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