Sharpa Unveils Its First Autonomous Full-Body Robot with Human Dexterity at CES 2026
2026-01-06
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6, 2026 — Sharpa, an AI robotics company, today unveiled North, its first full-body robot, at CES 2026. As Sharpa states in its mission, “We manufacture time by making robots useful,” North is built for productivity-focused autonomy. North integrates dexterous manipulation with smooth whole-body control, enabling it to autonomously perform complex tasks across diverse real-world settings.
At CES 2026, North delivered four fully autonomous live demonstrations. In these demos, North rallies in ping-pong with a 0.02-second reaction time. It captures instant photos with ~2 mm precision. It also deals cards using multimodal reasoning, with real-time vision and language inputs. North further builds a paper windmill through a 30+ step handicraft sequence. It sustains steady hand–eye–tactile coordination throughout the process and maintains accurate manipulation over extended task durations. The windmill demo represents one of the longest continuous autonomous manipulation sequences publicly demonstrated by a robot to date.
North’s blockbuster debut in Las Vegas highlights a combination of capabilities Sharpa believes are critical to making full-body robots truly useful:
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Human-like upper-body range of motion, from neck to waist and from shoulder to wrist
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Reliable performance on contact-rich manipulation, such as extracting a single card from a full deck
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High success rates sustained across long-horizon tasks and diverse scenarios, rather than isolated one-off demonstrations
These capabilities are enabled by a proprietary neural-network model, advanced kinematics and dynamics optimization, and Sharpa Wave, Sharpa’s mass-produced dexterous hand. SharpaWave is an anthropomorphic, 1:1 human-scale robotic hand with 22 active degrees of freedom and ultra-sensitive tactile feedback, including sub-millimeter resolution and more than 1,000 tactile pixels per fingertip.
Sharpa is building toward a more human-centered future of robotics. As robots like North become increasingly general-purpose and autonomous, they can augment human capability in everyday life—freeing people from repetitive work and giving them back time for higher-value pursuits.