Sharpa Unveils Three Tactile Robotics Systems at IROS 2026

Sharpa Unveils Three Tactile Robotics Systems at IROS 2026

The D01 robot, W02 dexterous hand and AE01 data glove give Sharpa hardware for robot manipulation, teleoperation and training-data collection.

PITTSBURGH — Sharpa introduced three robotics systems at IROS 2026 on Sept. 28, expanding its hardware lineup with a tactile manipulation robot, a smaller dexterous hand and an exoskeleton glove for teleoperation and data collection.

The Singapore-headquartered company unveiled the D01 robot, W02 dexterous hand and AE01 data glove at the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, according to a Securities Daily report (Chinese-language source).

The D01 is an integrated robot designed around manipulation and tactile sensing. Sharpa says its arms have a payload-to-weight ratio of about 1:1, while the end effector can move at more than 10.5 meters per second. The company lists repeatability of 0.2 mm and force resolution of 0.2 newtons.

Electronic skin across the robot's body is intended to detect physical contact. At IROS, Sharpa showed the D01 catching a falling baton and responding when attendees touched its arms and chest. Those were controlled demonstrations and do not establish performance in customer operations.

The W02 is a more compact successor to Sharpa's W01 dexterous hand. It has 21 active degrees of freedom and weighs less than 750 grams, according to Sharpa's specifications. Vision-based tactile sensors at the fingertips detect contact, pressure and slip, while electronic skin extends force sensing across the fingers and palm.

Sharpa lists fingertip force sensing from five millinewtons to 30 newtons and IP54 protection for the uncovered hand. The company's website directs prospective customers to its sales team but does not publish a price.

The third product, AE01, is an exoskeleton glove intended for robot teleoperation and egocentric training-data collection. It uses 22 encoders to measure the operator's hand movements and five fingertip vibration motors to provide haptic feedback. Sharpa lists wired data output at 500 Hz and wireless output at 150 Hz.

At IROS, an operator used the glove to remotely control the D01 through a sequence that included adding ice, pouring drinks and shaking a cocktail, according to Securities Daily. Another demonstration used the W02 to mirror an operator's hand while catching a thrown toy.

Sharpa already sells robotic manipulation hardware and also develops the North humanoid and CraftNet, its vision-tactile-language-action model. The company says its earlier Wave hand entered mass production in 2025.

Sharpa's website provides sales processes for the W02 and AE01, but ROBOT24.com found no equivalent first-party ordering information for the D01. The company has not publicly listed prices for the new systems.