DexRobot

Robot hands have historically been laboratory instruments, priced like them, treated like them, and retired like them; DexRobot builds hands rated like industrial components. The Chinese dexterous hand specialist behind the DexHand021 family engineers to the numbers a production planner reads: lifespans beyond one million cycles, active thermal management sized for seven day, twenty four hour operation, real time temperature monitoring with fault protection, and, in its flagship, a price the company claims at one fifth that of comparable systems. It is the proposition that moves five finger dexterity from the research budget to the equipment budget, and it arrives as a complete ladder, an 8 degree of freedom entry hand, a 19 degree of freedom industrial workhorse and a 22 degree of freedom sensing flagship, so that classrooms, factories and manipulation laboratories each buy exactly the hand their work deserves.

Around the hardware, DexRobot has built the loop that modern manipulation actually requires. The DexTele teleoperation data acquisition system, unveiled alongside the full hand series at Automate 2026 as the company expanded onto the American show floor, integrates teleoperation hardware, force controlled humanoid arms, high degree of freedom hands and a professional data platform into an out of the box pipeline, capturing tactile, joint, pose, vision and depth modalities at high precision and low latency, demonstration to dataset to autonomous execution, closed in one product family, beside the DexCap capture line and a developer ecosystem spanning simulation, reinforcement and imitation learning toolkits, motion capture and VR integration, open protocols and ROS.

Within the wider robot hands and accessories categories, the full DexRobot range for sale can be explored through this page.

Background

Hands as the industry's bottleneck

As humanoids and dual arm systems spread, the hand became automation's scarcest component: complex enough to dominate engineering budgets, fragile enough to dominate maintenance ones, and expensive enough to gate every deployment plan. DexRobot's answer is vertical specialisation, hands and only hands, engineered from the DexHand021 Concept, presented as the first high degree of freedom, multi modal, open platform general purpose dexterous hand, into a production family whose durability, thermal and cost figures read deliberately like component datasheets rather than research papers.

A ladder, not a flagship

The company's second structural choice is range: rather than one heroic hand, a tiered family in which the S covers roughly eighty per cent of core hand functions at entry cost, the industrial 021 carries sensing and endurance for daily duty, and the Pro concentrates freedom, force and full palm perception for the frontier, all sharing protocols, SDKs and the surrounding data ecosystem, so a buyer's first hand and thousandth hand live in one toolchain.

The DexRobot Range

DexHand021 Pro

The Pro is the flagship: a dual tendon driven five finger hand with 22 degrees of freedom, a 50 newton payload and full palm multi modal sensing, durability proven beyond 300,000 cycles, and the range's headline economics, capability of the class's most expensive systems at a claimed fifth of their cost, the configuration for in hand manipulation research, embodied AI programmes and advanced humanoid fitments.

DexHand021

The industrial 021 is the working standard: 19 degrees of freedom under tendon driven underactuation that wraps grasps stably around irregular objects and tools, 23 built in sensors reporting the hand's state, and, in its Mass Production edition, the endurance engineering that defines the brand, active cooling at 2.38 cubic feet per minute holding continuous seven day, twenty four hour operation, a lifespan beyond one million cycles, real time thermal monitoring with anomaly protection, and fingertip tactile sensing spanning 0 to 20 newtons at 0.1 newton resolution and ±2 per cent full scale accuracy, communicating over CAN FD with dual hand kits, mounting flanges and field accessories in the box.

DexHand021 S

The S opens the range: an ultra light industrial three finger hand of 0.6 kilogrammes delivering 22 newtons of grip through 8 degrees of freedom, engineered to cover around eighty per cent of core hand functions at a fraction of five finger cost, with an open SDK, the fitment for education, cost sensitive industrial cells and high volume deployments where full anthropomorphism is luxury rather than requirement.

DexTele and the Data Ecosystem

DexTele completes the range as the teaching apparatus: an integrated teleoperation and data acquisition system, hardware, force controlled humanoid arms, high freedom hands and data platform, ready out of the box with no secondary development of structure, electronics, communication, algorithms or pipelines, capturing full range complex postures across tactile, joint, pose, vision and depth modalities. With the DexCap line and the developer ecosystem, high fidelity simulation with physics engines and visualisation, motion mapping and teleoperation algorithms, reinforcement and imitation learning toolkits, motion capture, VR and gesture integration, open protocols and ROS support, it closes the loop from human demonstration to trained autonomous execution.

Range Overview

Figures follow published specifications; editions and configurations are confirmed at quotation.

Which buyers does DexRobot suit?

The ladder assigns itself. Humanoid programmes and manipulation laboratories take the Pro's freedom and palm wide sensing across research robotics and fitments across the humanoid catalogue. Manufacturers automating tool use, assembly and handling take the industrial 021's endurance economics across industrial and factory robotics, where a million cycle, actively cooled hand prices as equipment rather than experiment. Education programmes and cost led cells take the S across educational robotics, embodied AI teams take DexTele's demonstration to dataset pipeline for training data at production quality, and integrators take the shared protocols, SDKs and ROS support that let one toolchain span every tier, with complementary hardware from the sensors catalogue and mission software from the robot software catalogue completing deployments.

Technology

Endurance engineered, not hoped for

The Mass Production 021's defining features are the unglamorous ones: 2.38 cubic feet per minute of active cooling holding thermals through continuous seven day duty, real time temperature monitoring with anomaly response, and a beyond million cycle lifespan that converts maintenance from schedule to rarity, the reliability engineering that separates a hand bought once from a hand budgeted annually.

Tendons, tuned per tier

DexRobot's drive philosophy scales with purpose: tendon driven underactuation in the industrial 021 lets fingers conform around irregular objects for stable real world grasps, whilst the Pro's dual tendon architecture funds its 22 degrees of freedom and 50 newton payload with the compliance and speed manipulation research demands, mechanics chosen for the work rather than the specification sheet.

Sensing with stated accuracy

The range's perception is quoted like instrumentation: fingertip tactile from 0 to 20 newtons at 0.1 newton resolution and ±2 per cent full scale accuracy on the industrial hand, 23 onboard sensors reporting joint and system state, and full palm multi modal coverage on the Pro, contact data trustworthy enough to close force loops and train models on.

The demonstration to execution loop

DexTele's integration is its argument: because teleoperation rig, arms, hands and data platform ship as one engineered system, the expensive gap between showing a robot a task and training it to perform one collapses, multi modal recordings, touch, joints, pose, vision, depth, flowing at low latency into datasets that the same family's hands then execute, the hardware plus data plus toolchain ecosystem automation's AI turn requires.

What are DexRobot products used for?

1. Humanoid and dual arm fitment: five finger capability for platforms across the humanoid catalogue, at every tier of ambition.
2. Industrial grasping and tool use: continuous duty handling on the actively cooled 021 across industrial and factory robotics.
3. Manipulation research: in hand dexterity and tactile studies on the Pro's 22 freedoms across research robotics.
4. Training data production: teleoperated demonstration capture across five modalities through DexTele.
5. Education: hand mechanics, control and SDK development on the S's accessible platform across educational robotics.
6. Simulation led development: physics accurate hand models, reinforcement and imitation learning toolkits and ROS integration across the ecosystem.

Pricing and Availability

DexRobot products are available for purchase across Europe and worldwide, from single DexHand021 S units to industrial hand fleets, Pro research pairs and complete DexTele data systems, alongside the wider robot hands catalogue on Robots Europa. DexRobot price and cost vary by model, edition and kit configuration, so buyers seeking DexHand021 hands 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 DexRobot products can be found on this page.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is DexRobot?

DexRobot is a Chinese dexterous hand specialist: maker of the DexHand021 family, from the entry three finger S through the industrial 021 to the flagship 22 degree of freedom Pro, and of the DexTele teleoperation data acquisition system, unveiled together as a full series at Automate 2026.

How do DexHand021 hands work?

They grasp through tendon driven architectures, underactuated conformity on the industrial 021 and dual tendon drive on the Pro, sense contact through fingertip tactile arrays with stated 0.1 newton resolution and up to full palm multi modal coverage, communicate over CAN FD with open protocols and SDKs, and integrate through ROS and the company's simulation toolchain.

What is the difference between the DexHand021 models?

The S is the entry tier, three fingers, 8 degrees of freedom, 0.6 kilogrammes, around eighty per cent of core hand functions; the industrial 021 adds five fingers, 19 degrees of freedom, 23 sensors and continuous duty endurance; and the Pro leads with 22 degrees of freedom, 50 newton payload and full palm sensing at a claimed fifth of comparable systems' cost.

What makes DexRobot hands suited to industrial use?

The reliability engineering: active cooling at 2.38 cubic feet per minute for seven day, twenty four hour operation, lifespans beyond one million cycles, real time thermal monitoring with anomaly protection and tendon underactuation that grasps irregular objects stably, endurance specified the way industrial components are.

What is DexTele?

DexTele is DexRobot's teleoperation data acquisition system: teleoperation hardware, force controlled humanoid arms, high degree of freedom hands and a professional data platform integrated out of the box, capturing tactile, joint, pose, vision and depth data across full range postures at high precision and low latency for manipulation AI training.

What are the benefits of DexRobot products?

Key benefits include a complete capability ladder under one toolchain, class leading endurance and thermal engineering, tactile sensing with stated instrumentation accuracy, disruptive flagship economics, an out of the box demonstration to dataset pipeline and an ecosystem spanning simulation, learning toolkits, VR and ROS.

Where can I buy DexRobot products and what do they cost?

DexRobot products are 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 model and kit, buyers should request a tailored quotation. Full purchasing details are available on this page.

Summary

DexRobot is the dexterous hand treated as serious industrial equipment: cooled for shifts that never end, rated past a million cycles, sensed to stated accuracies and priced, at the flagship, to embarrass the category's incumbents. The ladder gives every buyer an honest rung, the S's eighty per cent of function at entry cost, the industrial 021's continuous duty, the Pro's 22 freedom, palm wide frontier, and DexTele closes the loop above them, turning human demonstration into the training data the hands then execute. As the endurance and economics specialist of the dexterous hand market, DexRobot stands where fingers become infrastructure, and this page as the European starting point for taking a grip.