Welcome, DH2116 Series!
The DH2116 Series is Leadshine’s flagship five finger dexterous robotic hand, designed for applications that demand detailed finger control, compact integration, and firm grasping performance. It receives a Humanoid.Guide Hand Score of 5 out of 10, placing it in the developing category, with a strong degrees of freedom rating of 4 out of 5 and a strength rating of 1 out of 5. The hand is engineered around coreless motors and precision screw drive mechanisms that support smooth, accurate joint motion. Its design emphasizes independent finger movement, enabling a broad range of natural hand poses and manipulation patterns. At 0.87 kg and measuring 218 × 119 × 80.5 mm, it is sized for robotic platforms where mass and packaging constraints matter. Internal position and current feedback support control without tactile sensors. Leadshine positions the DH2116 Series for humanoid robotics, industrial assembly, service robotics, and laboratory research, where developers need a programmable multi finger end effector with refined motion control.
The DH2116 Series prioritizes dexterity through its highly rated degrees of freedom category, supporting detailed finger articulation for gesture replication, object handling, and research into robotic manipulation. Its coreless motor actuation and screw drive design provide controlled movement while preserving a compact hand format. Developers can work with Windows, Linux, and ROS 2 environments, using C++ or Python through an open SDK. Visual debugging tools and ready to run demonstrations help shorten setup and evaluation time. Internal position and current feedback enable motor level control strategies, including monitoring finger motion and estimating contact related loading. These features make the hand relevant for teams building custom grasp policies, teleoperation interfaces, simulation workflows, and manipulation experiments that require software access alongside mechanical precision.
The DH2116 Series is in production, making it a commercially available option for robotics developers and integrators seeking a five finger hand rather than an early concept platform. Leadshine brings experience in motion control components to the product, connecting robotic hand development with established motor and drive engineering. Its open software approach broadens its relevance across research institutions, industrial automation teams, and humanoid robot builders that need to integrate their own control stack. The product’s significance lies in combining articulated hand mechanics, developer facing tools, and cross platform software support in one unit. With a total score of 5 out of 10, it represents a developing dexterous hand platform that can support continued experimentation and practical integration in manipulation focused robotic systems.
