Wave W02

Under 750 g and 188 x 87.5 x 40 mm, the Wave W02 is Sharpa's compact hand, and it keeps 21 active degrees of freedom by shrinking the proprietary actuator modules inside the palm. Open-close cycling runs at 3 Hz and the minimum grasp diameter is 0 mm, meaning the fingers close fully onto each other.

Sensing works on two levels: fingertip tactile sensors with 5 mN sensitivity, 1 mm spacing and a 5 mN to 30 N range, plus a whole-hand electronic skin at 0.1 N sensitivity, 5 mm spacing and a 0.1 to 20 N range. The housing is rated IP54, or IP67 with the glove fitted, which is rare among research hands that usually carry no ingress rating at all. Sharpa intends it for its own Droid D01 humanoid.

Payload, grip force, interfaces and supply voltage are not published. Price on request. The larger SharpaWave with its 40 kg payload is the heavy-duty sibling; in a similar weight class, RY-H1 offers sixteen active joints without the skin.