AgiBot OmniHand

Robotics solved the arm years before it solved what goes on the end of it, and the OmniHand is AgiBot's answer to that harder half. The AgiBot OmniHand, catalogued as the O10 and marketed as the OmniHand 2025, is a compact interactive dexterous hand: five fingers, sixteen degrees of freedom of which ten are actively driven, 180 millimetres from wrist to fingertip and just 500 grammes on the scale, with more than 400 touch sensitive force control points spread across its surface feeding tactile awareness back to its controller in real time. It exists because the world's objects were designed for hands, door handles, tools, packaging, keyboards, cups, and a robot fitted with a parallel jaw gripper meets that world one geometry at a time, whilst a robot fitted with a hand meets it the way people do.

AgiBot builds the OmniHand to three declared priorities, light weight and agile, interactive and versatile, safe and user friendly, and the ordering is telling: this is the interactive tier of the maker's hand programme, tuned for the service counters, laboratories, classrooms and light manipulation stations where a machine's fingers work near human ones, its anti pinch architecture making that proximity a design feature rather than a risk assessment. Sold as a standalone accessory over a standardised CAN FD interface, it mounts to humanoid robots, collaborative arms and mobile manipulators from AgiBot's own platforms to third party machines alike.

Purchasing details for the OmniHand for sale, alongside the wider robot accessories catalogue, can be explored through this page.

Background

The hand as robotics' bottleneck

Grippers made automation possible and kept it narrow: a jaw or a suction cup handles the part it was specified for and fumbles the part beside it. The dexterous hand is the general answer, power grasps for stable holding, precision grasps for fine positioning, one end effector across arbitrary object variety, but for years it lived in research budgets only. AgiBot's hand programme, running from this OmniHand through the Pro tier to the OmniHand 3 flagships, belongs to the wave that industrialised the form, publishing stabilised technical specifications, its OmniHand documents updated as recently as February 2026, shipping open SDKs and pricing the technology into working deployments.

Built in a human layout

The OmniHand's anatomy follows its inspiration deliberately: a fully independent, opposable thumb; three identical central fingers, index, middle and ring, carrying the precision and wrap grasping work; and a supportive little finger stabilising loads laterally. Where fine control matters most, at the thumb and the index fingertip, degrees of freedom are independently driven, giving the hand genuine fine pose authority over thin, small and deformable objects, whilst passive degrees of freedom elsewhere let the structure conform naturally around whatever it closes on.

Specifications

Figures follow AgiBot's published specifications; configurations are confirmed at quotation.

What can the OmniHand actually do?

The repertoire is the human one. Precision pinches lift the thin and the small; lateral key grips hold flat objects the way fingers hold a card; power grasps wrap and secure tools, bottles and handles; and in hand reorientation adjusts an object's pose without setting it down, the skill that separates hands from grippers. Beneath the motions, the tactile stack does the judging: fingertip taxel arrays register contact onset and grip force through normal pressure, whilst micro vibration signatures reveal shear and incipient slip, letting the controller tighten, ease or re grasp before an object moves, and soft objects deform rather than crush. It is manipulation with feedback, the difference between holding and merely closing.

Which OmniHand configuration suits which buyer?

The base ladder is short and honest. The Standard configuration carries the full mechanical and sensing package for interactive service, education and development work; the W/Tactile configuration deepens the touch system for contact rich research and applications that live on tactile data. Above them, AgiBot's hand programme continues into the Pro 2025 tier, nineteen degrees of freedom, 0.1 newton multi modal sensing, EtherCAT and ingress protected builds for industrial duty, and the OmniHand 3 family crowned by the Ultra-T flagship, so OmniHand buyers are entering a roadmap rather than buying a dead end, with skills, SDK experience and integrations carrying upward. Deployed hands pair naturally with mission software, RoboPick class systems from the robot software catalogue, for station level work.

Technology

Tendon drive with built in give

The OmniHand transmits force through tendon actuation with compliant mechanics: drive effort routed to the fingers whilst the structure keeps a small elastic give that absorbs unexpected contact, protects the mechanism and softens the hand's presence around people, compliance as a safety layer engineered into the transmission itself rather than added in software alone.

Four hundred points of touch

The sensing philosophy is coverage: over 400 force control points distributed across the hand, not just the fingertips, so contact anywhere on the structure is a signal rather than a surprise, fused into real time force regulation that grades grip to the object, detects the beginnings of slip and keeps interaction gentle, with the optional high density gel fingertip pads raising resolution where research demands it.

An open developer surface

The OmniHand ships as a platform: CAN FD communication for clean integration, a comprehensive SDK with Python and C++ APIs, ROS 2 drivers and URDF and 3D model files for simulation, published through AgiBot's document centre alongside maintained technical specifications, the openness that has made the hand a fixture of research programmes building manipulation skills that transfer.

Safe beside people by design

The anti pinch architecture, compliant transmission and force graded control combine into the OmniHand's defining trait: a hand rated for the interactive tier, where fingers meet visitors, students and colleagues, engineered so that the safest thing in the encounter is the machine's own judgement about how hard to hold.

What is the AgiBot OmniHand used for?

1. Interactive service: handovers, demonstrations and public facing manipulation on service humanoids and upper body platforms.
2. Manipulation research: grasping, tactile sensing and in hand skill studies across research robotics, on an open SDK.
3. Education and training: dexterous manipulation as a teachable subject across educational robotics.
4. Light duty handling: varied object picking, sorting and placement where gripper tooling cannot cover the variety.
5. Humanoid and cobot integration: the hand upgrade for humanoid robots, collaborative arms and mobile manipulators, AgiBot and third party alike.
6. Teleoperation and data collection: human piloted manipulation whose recordings feed imitation learning pipelines.

Pricing and Availability

The AgiBot OmniHand is available for purchase across Europe and worldwide in its Standard and W/Tactile configurations, as a standalone accessory or specified alongside a robot platform, within the wider robot accessories catalogue on Robots Europa. OmniHand price and cost vary by configuration, tactile options and integration requirements, so buyers seeking the OmniHand for sale should request a current quotation for their requirements, with European delivery, customs clearance and support arranged through Robots Europa. Purchasing enquiries, specification sheets and availability details for those looking to buy the AgiBot OmniHand can be found on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the AgiBot OmniHand?

The AgiBot OmniHand is a compact interactive dexterous robot hand, model O10, with 16 degrees of freedom of which 10 are actively driven, 180 millimetres long and 500 grammes light, carrying more than 400 touch sensitive force control points, an anti pinch safety design and CAN FD communication for humanoid robots, collaborative arms and mobile manipulators.

How does the AgiBot OmniHand work?

It grasps through a human layout, an independent opposable thumb, three identical central fingers and a stabilising little finger, driven by compliant tendon actuation, whilst fingertip taxel arrays and hand wide force points sense pressure, shear and incipient slip in real time, letting the controller grade its grip to each object.

Why is the AgiBot OmniHand important?

It brings dexterous manipulation out of the research budget: human like grasping, precision pinch to power grip to in hand reorientation, with genuine tactile feedback, published specifications and an open SDK, at the interactive tier where robot hands work safely beside people, from a maker whose hand programme scales to industrial flagships.

What are the benefits of the AgiBot OmniHand?

Key benefits include one end effector across arbitrary object variety, over 400 points of tactile awareness with slip detection, a 500 gramme weight that suits humanoid wrists and cobot flanges, anti pinch safety for human facing work, Python, C++ and ROS 2 development support and an upgrade path through the Pro and OmniHand 3 tiers.

What is the difference between the OmniHand Standard and W/Tactile?

Both carry the full 16 degree of freedom mechanics and safety architecture; the W/Tactile configuration deepens the touch sensing package for contact rich research and tactile data driven applications, with exact sensor complements and options confirmed at quotation.

Which robots is the OmniHand compatible with?

It is designed for seamless mounting on humanoid robots, collaborative robot arms and mobile manipulators over its standardised CAN FD interface, covering AgiBot's own platforms and third party machines, with URDF models supporting simulation before hardware integration.

Where can I buy the AgiBot OmniHand and what does it cost?

The AgiBot OmniHand is for sale through Robots Europa, serving the United Kingdom, the European Union and markets worldwide with delivery, customs clearance and support. Because cost varies by configuration and options, buyers should request a tailored quotation. Full purchasing details are available on this page.

Summary

The AgiBot OmniHand is the missing half of the robot arm made purchasable: five fingers in a human layout, sixteen degrees of freedom, four hundred points of touch and the judgement to hold a paper cup differently from a spanner, all at 500 grammes and the interactive tier's safety standard. It turns grippers' one geometry at a time into hands' anything on the table, opens fully to developers through CAN FD, Python, C++ and ROS 2, and starts a ladder that climbs through the Pro tier to AgiBot's flagship hands. As the accessible door into dexterous manipulation, the OmniHand stands as the category's natural first purchase, and this page as the European starting point for making it.

v3, August 9, 2026