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[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

Sharpa Wave tactile hands are part of the new @NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot 🤖

Announced by Jensen Huang at #NVIDIAGTC Taipei an hour ago, the first dexterous humanoid reference design on the Isaac GR00T platform, featuring human-like tactile hands built for the robotics research community.

What this unlocks:
→ Precise assembly on manufacturing lines
→ Delicate lab work — pipettes, syringes, fragile materials
→ Any task that demands dexterity at human scale

Full stack:
🖐️ Sharpa Wave five-finger tactile hands
⚡ Isaac GR00T software + Jetson Thor compute
🤖 @UnitreeRobotics H2 platform

#Robotics #HumanoidRobots #GR00T #AIRobotics #dexteroushands #robotichands

[NVIDIA Robotics @NVIDIARobotics]

NVIDIA announces the first open humanoid robot reference design built for robotics research.

The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot combines the @UnitreeRobotics H2 humanoid robot, @SharpaRobotics Wave five-fingered hands for dexterous manipulation, Jetson Thor onboard compute, and Isaac GR00T open software and models, giving researchers a full-stack platform from data capture to model deployment.

Read the #NVIDIAGTC Taipei announcement: https://t.co/ZsT3qQKucb

[Vincent Chow @vince_chow1]

New: Nvidia has partnered with Chinese robotics champion Unitree on a new humanoid robot reference design called H2+ that combines Unitree’s human-sized H2 robot body, Sharpa’s five-fingered hands, and Nvidia’s Isaac GR00T robotics models.
https://t.co/OATrlqrr6A

[Yuke Zhu @yukez]

Exciting news on GR00T:

NVIDIA announces our first open humanoid robot platform, featuring Unitree H2 Plus and Sharpa hands, to accelerate academic research and facilitate cross-institutional collaboration.

R&D in humanoid robotics needs broader participation. Open science is how we build the future faster, together.

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@chris_j_paxton Super cool challenge！

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

The Robotic Origami Challenge is coming to IROS 2026 (Sept 26) and it's one of the most creative dexterous manipulation benchmarks we've seen.

The task: train a policy to fold a traditional Japanese paper airplane.

The judge: an Origami Grand Master from the Nippon Origami Association.

You got #SharpaWave robot hands? Good!
You don't? We will be providing real-world eval support remotely.

Excited to see what you will come up with, along with the organizers @chris_j_paxton @micoolcho @DJiafei

More info: https://t.co/QubvM5dmaA

[RoboPapers @RoboPapers]

3 of us @micoolcho @chris_j_paxton @DJiafei are super excited to help organize the Robotic Origami Competition at IROS (Sept 2026), along with @BitRobotNetwork @SharpaRobotics @LightwheelAI @hq_fang @sanatem @Noriaki_Hirose @gao_young

Calling for teams!

[Lukas Ziegler @lukas_m_ziegler]

🚨 BREAKING: NVIDIA just announced the Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot.

The first fully open humanoid robot reference design built on Jetson Thor, and it's going straight to the world's top research institutions.

This is Jensen Huang's bet on open physical AI infrastructure.

The hardware stack is serious:

→ Unitree H2 Plus chassis, 6 feet tall, 150 pounds, 31 degrees of freedom
→ Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, 22 degrees of freedom, bringing total to 75 across the full body
→ NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor onboard compute, 2,070 FP4 teraflops of AI performance, 128GB unified memory
→ Multi-view sensing, stereo head camera, wrist cameras, IMU

Alongside this announcement, @UnitreeRobotics also introduced the H2 Plus as a standalone product, a frontier humanoid combining Unitree's own body, Sharpa's five-finger hands and NVIDIA Robotics Jetson Thor compute into one fully integrated research platform.

The full Isaac GR00T software stack ships with it, teleoperation for data capture, open foundation models, Isaac Sim for training, Isaac Lab for evaluation, and accelerated ROS middleware for deployment.

The complete loop from data to real-world robot in one unified platform.

ETH Zürich, Stanford Robotics Center, UC San Diego and Ai2 are already on board as launch research partners.

@NVIDIARobotics did to AI what it's now doing to robotics, build the platform, open the ecosystem, let the world build on top of it.

Whoever owns the infrastructure layer wins.

NVIDIA knows this better than anyone. 👀

Read more here: https://t.co/rQWJTquS0X

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[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

Looking forward to seeing you at #ICRA2026.

Featured events include:

1. June 1st, 15:10 at Stolz 2: Dr Yunfang Yang will be talking about dexterous hands

2. June 2nd, 11:00 at Lehar 1-4: Kaifeng Zhang, Head of Academia, will introduce Spatially-anchored Tactile Awareness research for robotics dexterity

And of course, see you at Booth #33 in Hall B.

Enjoy ICRA, everyone 😄

[The Humanoid Hub @TheHumanoidHub]

Jensen just unveiled the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot at GTC Taipei, the first open humanoid reference design built on Jetson Thor + the Isaac GR00T platform.

- The body: Unitree H2 chassis + Sharpa Wave tactile 5-finger hands.

- The brain: Jetson Thor compute + the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T open software stack (teleop, foundation models, sim, ROS).

- Aimed at academic labs that want to do frontier humanoid research without proprietary lock-in.

- Early adopters: ETH Zurich, Stanford Robotics Center, UCSD ARCLab. Endorsed by Skild's Deepak Pathak and Ai2's Dieter Fox.

Ships from Unitree late 2026.

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

We will be at ICRA in Vienna next week.

We first revealed our first product, the Wave dexterous hand, at the same time during ICRA last year. Since then we've delivered the Wave to research labs across the world, built our full body robot North, and developed our tactile AI Craftnet that gives robots a reflex-like intelligence for manipulation tasks.

Come to Booth #33 to see for yourself how we're advancing manipulation skills in robots!

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

Reposting to help the #RoCoChallenge team out 🙌
If you're a scrappy engineer or researcher who wants to take on real assembly tasks with robots — this is for you.
The 2026 RoCo Challenge at #IROS26 in Pittsburgh is expanding to more robot embodiments (bimanual grippers, dexterous hands) and 2 tracks (industrial board assembly + brick assembly)
⚠️ Live info session on May 21 at 9:30 PM EST https://t.co/pXmJkinhYX
Submissions close Jun 22. Finals Sep 30.
#Robotics #EmbodiedAI #PhysicalAI #Assembly #Dexteroushands #RoCo

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@NVIDIARobotics See you at ICRA!

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@lukas_m_ziegler @chris_j_paxton Thank you! Our team is building wonders. So excited about what they're creating and for what's coming next! 🙌"

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@VIKTORIIASbwvb @kushalk_ @tylerlum23 Hi Victoria, apologies for the delay in replying to your enquiry. Please DM your official company contact info so we can look into this right away and get back to you promptly. Thank you!

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

It’s been a massive week for embodied AI foundation models: the pace of this field is truly staggering.
Throwing it back to the SimToolReal work by @kushalk_ and @tylerlum23 (Cornell & Stanford labs). In February, they achieved zero-shot tool manipulation across 24 tasks using a single RL policy and a robotic arm fitted with the SharpaWave hand.
Watching the robot nail these high-speed in-hand rotations is incredible. The precision is especially impressive when you consider the policy was never trained on these specific objects or tasks. This is what solving the manipulation bottleneck looks like. ⚡️

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@VIKTORIIASbwvb Hi Victoria, apologies for the delay in replying to your enquiry. Please DM your official company contact info so we can look into this right away and get back to you promptly. Thank you!

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

Watch as Sharpa North assembles a computer autonomously!

From precise positioning to screwing and wire clipping, North executes complex, contact-rich tasks powered by tactile feedback.

Dexterous hands + tactile AI are what make real-world task execution possible.

This is the shift from simple automation to real-world robotics.

#SharpaRobotics

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@VIKTORIIASbwvb Hi Victoria, apologies for the delay in replying to your enquiry. Please DM your official company contact info so we can look into this right away and get back to you promptly. Thank you!

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

The movements look very fluid! Excellent operator/Wave symbiosis!

[MANUS™ @ManusMeta]

Teleoperating the 22-DoF Sharpa Wave @SharpaRobotics with MANUS gloves, capturing high-fidelity demonstration data for embodied AI.

#robotics #teleoperation #manipulation #datacollection

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@DJiafei Congratulations!👏

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@micoolcho It was great to have you with us! 😃

[Sharpa @SharpaRobotics]

@GalbotRobotics Nothing better than Sharpa hands to cook a burger just right! Joke aside, it's great to see the ecosystem coming up with new recipes to scale robot learning👍