North
130 000 USD
Sharpa (Sharpa Robotics)
North is Sharpa’s wheeled humanoid robot with 67 DoF and 22-DoF tactile Wave hands. Powered by the CraftNet AI model, it runs autonomous shifts in service, manufacturing and research settings.
Skill Score
5
Specifications and details:
| Availability | Prototype |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Singapore |
| Website | https://www.sharpa.com/ |
| Degrees of freedom, overall | 67 |
| Degrees of freedom, hands | 44 |
| Height [cm] | 160 |
| Max speed (km/h) | 6 |
| Strength [kg] | 12 |
| Weight [kg] | 90 |
| Runtime pr charge (hours) | 8 |
| Safe with humans | Partly: tactile hands with grip control and built for service settings |
| CPU/GPU | NVIDIA Jetson Thor |
| Ingress protection | N/A |
| Camera resolution | N/A |
| Connectivity | Ethernet, Wi-Fi |
| Operating system | Linux-based, ROS 2 compatible |
| LLM integration | CraftNet VTLA (Vision-Tactile-Language-Action) model, Yes |
| Latency glass to action | 20 ms (reported hand response time <0.02 s) |
| Motor tech | Electric servo actuators (in-house micro motors in hands) |
| Gear tech | Micro gears in hands / body reducers not published |
| Main structural material | N/A |
| Number of fingers | 5 per hand |
| Main market | food service, Hospitality, Manufacturing, Research, retail |
| Color | White, Grey |
| Manufacturer | Sharpa (Sharpa Robotics) |
Description
North is a wheeled humanoid robot from Sharpa, an AI robotics company based in Singapore. Sharpa built it to run full work shifts on its own in service and industrial settings. The robot combines a human-like upper body with a mobile wheeled base. In addition, it uses Sharpa’s Wave hands, which match human hands in size and dexterity. As a result, North can handle delicate objects as well as everyday tools.
North first drew wide attention at CES 2026 in Las Vegas. There, it worked fully autonomously for four days, eight hours a day. For example, it played ping-pong rallies, dealt cards and took photos with a camera. Its most famous demo showed it assembling a paper windmill in more than 30 steps. Throughout the show, no human stepped in to guide it.
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Behind these skills sits CraftNet, Sharpa’s own AI model for hands-on work. CraftNet combines vision, touch and language to decide how the robot should move. Moreover, its fast reflex layer reads touch signals in real time and adjusts the grip instantly. North can react to a moving ball in about two hundredths of a second. Therefore, it handles both fast action and careful, precise tasks.
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Sharpa targets hotels, retail, food service and manufacturing with North. In factories, it can screw, clip and fasten parts that rigid industrial robots struggle with. Meanwhile, research teams can use it to collect manipulation data and test new AI policies. The company was founded in 2024 by the co-founders of LiDAR maker Hesai Technology. In short, North shows how dexterous hands and smart AI can bring humanoids into real workplaces.
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