Sharpa has announced that its Wave tactile robot hands have been integrated into the Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot reference design, marking the first dexterous humanoid platform built on Nvidia's Isaac GR00T development framework to feature Sharpa's tactile manipulation technology. The collaboration aims to provide robotics developers and researchers with a validated hardware and software platform that combines dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, simulation, training, and deployment tools, reducing the complexity of integrating hardware, collecting training data, and deploying robot capabilities in real-world environments.
Key takeaways
- The H2 Plus platform integrates Sharpa Wave hands with Unitree humanoid hardware, Nvidia onboard computing, and Isaac GR00T workflows into a single reference design.
- Each Wave hand features five fingers with 22 degrees of freedom, bringing the robot's total to 75 degrees of freedom; each fingertip has over 1,000 tactile sensing points.
- The system uses Nvidia Jetson AGX Thor for onboard computing, and developers can use Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for simulation and training, with a minimal simulation-to-reality gap.
This integration underscores the growing importance of dexterous manipulation and tactile sensing in moving humanoid robots toward practical industrial and commercial applications.
Source: Robotics & Automation News (roboticsandautomationnews.com) · Published 2026-06-09 · “Sharpa brings dexterous robot hands to Nvidia and Unitree humanoid reference design”