Sharpa’s Wave Hand + GR00T Boost
Sharpa Robotics joined NVIDIA Inception and showed an anthropomorphic Wave hand that, when paired with GR00T policies trained on 20k+ hours of human video, increased task success by ~54% on assembly and sorting benchmarks — results they’ll present at GTC 2026 announced reported.
Sharpa’s Wave hand is described as a human-scale, 22‑active‑degree‑of‑freedom design with high‑resolution tactile sensing (a “Dynamic Tactile Array”) and fingertip forces reported above 20 N. markets.financialcontent.com The company moved the Wave into mass production and began shipping units to customers in mid‑October 2025, according to industry coverage of the product launch. humanoidsdaily.com NVIDIA’s GEAR Lab transfer tests put GR00T‑derived policies onto robots fitted with the Wave hand and evaluated concrete tasks including assembling model cars, operating syringes, and sorting playing‑card‑style objects. roboticstomorrow.com NVIDIA’s GR00T N1.6 release and technical blog outline the sim‑to‑real pipeline used in those transfers, citing a workflow that integrates Cosmos‑Reason‑2B visual‑language models and a 32‑layer diffusion transformer for fluid motion generation. developer.nvidia.com Sharpa’s software stack (branded CraftNet/VTLA) reportedly separates a Motion Brain (“System 1”) from an Interaction Brain (“System 0”) and explicitly maps tactile signals onto human video and glove‑acquired data to refine contact behaviors. markets.financialcontent.com Sharpa, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Singapore with R&D in Shanghai and business operations in Mountain View, was also named a CES 2026 Innovation Awards honoree for the SharpaWave design. prnewswire.com
