Sharpa · retail humanoid
North
A wheeled humanoid from a Singapore firm started by Hesai's founders, shown playing ping-pong and dealing cards using its 22-DOF SharpaWave hands.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 90 kgHeavier than 79%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: Not offered for order; North page describes a store deployment only, with general 'Talk to Our Team' contact.
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Why it matters
Built a paper windmill autonomously in more than 30 steps at CES 2026; hands carry over 1,000 tactile sensors per fingertip.
Real-world use
MOUs with JTC, A*STAR (port container handling) and Grab (April 2026); robot-run Dairy Queen in Shanghai (Aug 2026, company claim).
Maker
SharpaCompany · founded 2024 · SingaporeOver 4.5 billion yuan (about $669M) at a 22 billion yuan valuation (Aug 2026, company disclosure), from Alibaba, Meituan, Tencent, JD.com,…
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
North is heavier than 79% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
North has more joints than 97% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
3 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Assemble partsassembles paper windmills, 300+ over the show · Jan 2026 · interestingengineering.com
- Fine dexteritydeals individual playing cards at a blackjack table, live at CES 2026 · Jan 2026 · engadget.com
- Runs on its ownfour fully autonomous live demos, 8 hours a day for four days · Jan 2026 · prnewswire.com
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Public attention
How much public attention North gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 3 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base · 67 joints
- Hands
- SharpaWave hands: 22 active DoF, over 1,000 tactile sensors per fingertip, sub-millimetre detail, 180 Hz data, up to 30 N fingertip force; in mass production since late 2025 at about $50,000 per hand.
- AI & software
- Self-developed vision-tactile-language-action (VLTA) model; CraftNet for contact-rich step-by-step manipulation; 0.02 s response time (METI).
- Other details
- Wheeled humanoid; Sharpa hands are used in NVIDIA's Isaac GR00T reference humanoid (reported).
From the maker
North is the only humanoid from Sharpa in the atlas.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Not for saleNot offered for order; North page describes a store deployment only, with general 'Talk to Our Team' contact.
- Where it is sold or used
- Singapore and China (Shanghai Dairy Queen store, 2026).
- Customers and pilots
- MOUs with JTC, A*STAR (port container handling) and Grab (April 2026); robot-run Dairy Queen in Shanghai (Aug 2026, company claim).
News
The latest 3, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Sharpa raises about $669M and opens robot-run Dairy Queen
Round valued Sharpa at 22 billion yuan; humanoids make Blizzards in a 55-step process (company claims).
AI Understanding - Singapore minister speaks at Sharpa Physical AI Summit
Sharpa signed MOUs with JTC, A*STAR and Grab and plans about 150 staff in Singapore.
Singapore Ministry of Trade and Industry - Sharpa North debuts at CES 2026
Wheeled humanoid played ping pong and assembled paper windmills.
Mike Kalil
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure | NorthSharpa |  REX G1RoboScienceSame jobs: industrial, retail · Both on wheels · Both in development | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useNexoGalaxea Dynamics (星海图)Same jobs: industrial, retail · Both on wheels · Both in development |  HMND 01 (wheeled Alpha)Humanoid (SKL Robotics Ltd)Same jobs: industrial, retail · Both on wheels · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2026-01 | 2026-08-17 | 2026-08-21 | 2025-02-12 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 170 cm | — | 175 cm |
| Weight | 90 kg | — | — | 70 kg |
| Joints | 67 | 22 | 30 | — |
| Speed | — | — | — | 5.4 km/h |
| Payload | — | 10 kg | 20 kg | 15 kg |
| Battery | — | 4 h | 8 h | 4 h |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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