Unitree launches $6,500 Dex5-1 dexterous hand with 22 backdrivable DOF
lukas_m_ziegler · x · 2026-09-29
Highlights from Lukas Ziegler's robotics weekly: China's Unitree Robotics unveiled the Dex5-S, a human-sized dexterous robot hand starting at $6,500.
- 22 degrees of freedom, all backdrivable
- Impact-torque protection at every joint
- Roughly human-hand size
The author notes dexterous hands are becoming a standalone market: Unitree's rival AGIBOT already sells multiple hand architectures through its AGILINK spin-off, and both companies are building manipulator ecosystems.
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