{"id":59223,"date":"2026-06-01T21:34:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=59223"},"modified":"2026-06-01T21:34:00","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T14:34:00","slug":"sharpa-brings-dexterous-tactile-manipulation-to-the-nvidia-isaac-gr00t-reference-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thaipropertynews.com\/feeds\/?p=59223","title":{"rendered":"Sharpa Brings Dexterous, Tactile Manipulation to the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SINGAPORE<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">June 1, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa <\/a>today announced that the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot is the first dexterous humanoid robot reference design built on the Isaac GR00T development platform to feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa&#8217;s Wave<\/a> robot hands for dexterous, tactile manipulation. This validated configuration gives developers and researchers a state-of-the-art humanoid robot for building, fine-tuning and deploying robot skills faster \u2014 reducing setup time from days to hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2992165\/H2_sharpa_wave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2992165\/H2_sharpa_wave.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot\" alt=\"Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As demand for general-purpose humanoids accelerates, developers still face a fragmented workflow spanning hardware integration, data collection, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot unifies development by bringing a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot and Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands (the &#8220;body&#8221;), with NVIDIA Jetson Thor-powered onboard compute and Isaac GR00T software and workflows (the &#8220;brain&#8221;) into a single integrated reference design, helping research teams move faster from robot bring-up to skill development and real-world validation.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Our vision is to make robots genuinely productive \u2014 by advancing fine manipulation skills through dexterous, tactile hardware and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/craftnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AI models<\/a> that power them&#8221;, said David Li, Founder of Sharpa. &#8220;Partnering with NVIDIA on a humanoid robot reference design and end-to-end development solution is a meaningful step toward deploying robots that can perform real work, in real settings.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Dexterous hands are essential for humanoid robots to perform useful manipulation tasks in the real world,&#8221; said Spencer Huang, Director of Product for Robotics at NVIDIA. &#8220;With Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and Isaac Teleop, the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot gives developers a reference design for training robot skills that require touch, control and precision.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>A State-of-the-Art Dexterous Humanoid for Physical AI Development<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Sharpa Wave-enhanced NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot brings together the essential building blocks for frontier humanoid research into a single integrated system \u2014 pairing a human-scale robot body with dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, whole-body control and onboard AI compute.<\/p>\n<p>The reference design features:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Dual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa Wave<\/a> tactile five-finger hands<\/b>, with 22 degrees of freedom per hand, bringing the robot to 75 total degrees of freedom across hands and body and enabling dexterous manipulation at human scale.<\/li>\n<li><b>A high-resolution Digital Tactile Array with &gt;1,000 pixels per fingertip and 0.02N pressure sensitivity<\/b>, supporting high success rates on long-horizon, complex manipulation tasks, for instance involving in-hand rotation and bimanual operation.<\/li>\n<li><b>Unitree H2 humanoid chassis<\/b>, with 31 degrees of freedom across the body.<\/li>\n<li><b>NVIDIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/autonomous-machines\/embedded-systems\/jetson-thor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jetson AGX Thor<\/a> T5000 onboard compute<\/b>, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/technologies\/blackwell-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Blackwell architecture<\/a>, an Arm CPU, 128 GB of unified memory, and a configurable power range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sharpa Wave: A Human-Like End Effector for Humanoid Development<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the Sharpa Wave mounted on the H2 Plus humanoid robot and simulated within NVIDIA&#8217;s platform, developers can:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Capture high-quality upper-body demonstration data for dexterous manipulation training and policy development, in conjunction with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nvidia.github.io\/IsaacTeleop\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Isaac Teleop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Simulate, train and evaluate dexterous and tactile manipulation policies using\u00a0Sharpa Wave&#8217;s tactile parameters within <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac\/sim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaac Sim <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac\/lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaac Lab<\/a>, NVIDIA&#8217;s open simulation frameworks, before committing to real-world deployment.<\/li>\n<li>Deploy dexterous and tactile manipulation policies in real time with minimal\u00a0sim-to-real gap, leveraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/autonomous-machines\/embedded-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Jetson<\/a> for on-robot inference and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About Sharpa<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2024, Sharpa is a unicorn AI robotics company dedicated to developing high-performance dexterous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">robots<\/a>, systems, and components for general-purpose applications. Sharpa&#8217;s mission is to build robots that free people from repetitive or strenuous work to focus on more meaningful pursuits. Sharpa&#8217;s global headquarters is in Singapore, with manufacturing R&amp;D in Shanghai and business operations in Mountain View, USA.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"legendSpanClass\">SINGAPORE<\/span>, <span class=\"legendSpanClass\">June 1, 2026<\/span> \/PRNewswire\/ &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa <\/a>today announced that the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot is the first dexterous humanoid robot reference design built on the Isaac GR00T development platform to feature <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/wave\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa&#8217;s Wave<\/a> robot hands for dexterous, tactile manipulation. This validated configuration gives developers and researchers a state-of-the-art humanoid robot for building, fine-tuning and deploying robot skills faster \u2014 reducing setup time from days to hours.<\/p>\n<div class=\"PRN_ImbeddedAssetReference\">\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2992165\/H2_sharpa_wave.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnasia.com\/media2\/2992165\/H2_sharpa_wave.jpg?p=medium600\" title=\"Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot\" alt=\"Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot\" \/> <\/a> <br \/><span>Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands on NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>As demand for general-purpose humanoids accelerates, developers still face a fragmented workflow spanning hardware integration, data collection, simulation, training, evaluation and deployment.<\/p>\n<p>The NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot unifies development by bringing a Unitree H2 Plus humanoid robot and Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands (the &#8220;body&#8221;), with NVIDIA Jetson Thor-powered onboard compute and Isaac GR00T software and workflows (the &#8220;brain&#8221;) into a single integrated reference design, helping research teams move faster from robot bring-up to skill development and real-world validation.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Our vision is to make robots genuinely productive \u2014 by advancing fine manipulation skills through dexterous, tactile hardware and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/craftnet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AI models<\/a> that power them&#8221;, said David Li, Founder of Sharpa. &#8220;Partnering with NVIDIA on a humanoid robot reference design and end-to-end development solution is a meaningful step toward deploying robots that can perform real work, in real settings.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>&#8220;Dexterous hands are essential for humanoid robots to perform useful manipulation tasks in the real world,&#8221; said Spencer Huang, Director of Product for Robotics at NVIDIA. &#8220;With Sharpa Wave tactile five-finger hands, NVIDIA Isaac GR00T and Isaac Teleop, the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot gives developers a reference design for training robot skills that require touch, control and precision.&#8221;<\/i><\/p>\n<p><b>A State-of-the-Art Dexterous Humanoid for Physical AI Development<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Sharpa Wave-enhanced NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot brings together the essential building blocks for frontier humanoid research into a single integrated system \u2014 pairing a human-scale robot body with dexterous manipulation, tactile sensing, whole-body control and onboard AI compute.<\/p>\n<p>The reference design features:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><b>Dual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sharpa Wave<\/a> tactile five-finger hands<\/b>, with 22 degrees of freedom per hand, bringing the robot to 75 total degrees of freedom across hands and body and enabling dexterous manipulation at human scale.<\/li>\n<li><b>A high-resolution Digital Tactile Array with &gt;1,000 pixels per fingertip and 0.02N pressure sensitivity<\/b>, supporting high success rates on long-horizon, complex manipulation tasks, for instance involving in-hand rotation and bimanual operation.<\/li>\n<li><b>Unitree H2 humanoid chassis<\/b>, with 31 degrees of freedom across the body.<\/li>\n<li><b>NVIDIA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/autonomous-machines\/embedded-systems\/jetson-thor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Jetson AGX Thor<\/a> T5000 onboard compute<\/b>, featuring <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/data-center\/technologies\/blackwell-architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Blackwell architecture<\/a>, an Arm CPU, 128 GB of unified memory, and a configurable power range.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Sharpa Wave: A Human-Like End Effector for Humanoid Development<\/b><\/p>\n<p>With the Sharpa Wave mounted on the H2 Plus humanoid robot and simulated within NVIDIA&#8217;s platform, developers can:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>Capture high-quality upper-body demonstration data for dexterous manipulation training and policy development, in conjunction with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nvidia.github.io\/IsaacTeleop\/main\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Isaac Teleop<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Simulate, train and evaluate dexterous and tactile manipulation policies using\u00a0Sharpa Wave&#8217;s tactile parameters within <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac\/sim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaac Sim <\/a>and <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/isaac\/lab\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Isaac Lab<\/a>, NVIDIA&#8217;s open simulation frameworks, before committing to real-world deployment.<\/li>\n<li>Deploy dexterous and tactile manipulation policies in real time with minimal\u00a0sim-to-real gap, leveraging <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nvidia.com\/en-us\/autonomous-machines\/embedded-systems\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NVIDIA Jetson<\/a> for on-robot inference and control.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>About Sharpa<\/p>\n<p>Founded in 2024, Sharpa is a unicorn AI robotics company dedicated to developing high-performance dexterous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sharpa.com\/pages\/north\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">robots<\/a>, systems, and components for general-purpose applications. Sharpa&#8217;s mission is to build robots that free people from repetitive or strenuous work to focus on more meaningful pursuits. 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