What do the latest hands actually do?

01 Capability release

ACT-2 Preview: Generalizing Reliability

Sunday’s latest preview puts Memo’s paired three-finger hands through garment retrieval, regrasping, folding, and stacking in homes outside its training set.

Published

17 Jul 2026

Evidence

Uncut task trials

• Paired three-finger end effectors.
• The release focuses on deformable-object handling.
• Sunday reports 99.1% zero-shot laundry-fold success.

02 Product release

NEO’s Hands: An API to the Physical World

1X presents a new tendon-driven hand for NEO. The release emphasizes force control, backdrivability, tactile skin, and fine contact tasks.

Published

9 Jul 2026

Evidence

Technical release

• 25 degrees of freedom across the hand and wrist.
• 22 fully actuated finger and palm degrees of freedom.
• Tactile skin measures pressure, contact location, and slip.

03 Platform release

ABB Robotics partnership with supporting NVIDIA transfer demo

PSYONIC’s June 22 Automate 2026 release places the Ability Hand on an ABB GoFa arm. Its supporting NVIDIA release shows the same hand moving a pipetting task from a human user to several robot platforms. The page was posted July 6.

Published

22 Jun 2026

Evidence

Integration + demo

• The collaborators are exploring tactile sensing and compliant mechanics on an industrial arm.
• The hand is available as a native asset in NVIDIA Isaac Lab.
• The demonstration uses one hand design across human and robot platforms.

04 Platform release

Wave on the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T reference humanoid

Sharpa’s latest integration release mounts two human-scale Wave hands on NVIDIA’s reference humanoid. The product video gives a closer view of finger motion and contact manipulation.

Published

1 Jun 2026

Evidence

Integration + demo

• 22 active degrees of freedom in each five-finger hand.
• Dynamic Tactile Array sensors in the fingertips.
• Sharpa reports more than 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip.

05 Product release

Product Atlas and its newest-generation hand

Boston Dynamics launched product Atlas at CES 2026 after publishing a focused explanation of its electric humanoid gripper. The design balances industrial load handling with delicate contact.

Published

5 Jan 2026

Evidence

Product launch + explainer

• Three fingers, including an opposable thumb.
• Seven degrees of freedom in the gripper.
• Tactile fingertips and cameras in the palm.

06 Product release

SO-101 open robot arm

The SO-101 follower arm ends in a servo-driven two-jaw gripper. Its leader arm uses a hand grip and trigger to collect demonstrations for the open LeRobot stack.

Published

28 Apr 2025

Evidence

Open CAD + docs

• Servo-driven parallel gripper on the follower arm.
• Hand grip and trigger on the leader arm.
• CAD, assembly files, and software are published openly.