In the first half of 2026, more than 25 billion yuan have been invested in the field, up from the previous year. The parameters are also being rapidly refreshed: different manufacturers have increased the frequency from 1242 to 42 degrees, touch points from tens to thousands, and the total weight of the hand pressed to 370 grams.
However, GGII data shows that around 192,000 smart hands were sold in China in 2025; another industry observation notes that the main purchasing power is not the manufacturers of humanoid robots, but universities and research institutions, followed by industrial manufacturing and logistics.
The reason for this is realistic: a 20-degree hand is sent to the laboratory to install modulation, communication pairing, data alignment, all of which is the buyer's own life. The training of agile hands cannot be completed in isolation, and virtual machine data with touch and power controls must be obtained based on the coordination of the "body and arm and wrist" coordinates.
Now, two furniture companies have taken this path for users: the interchangeably-powered mobile two-arms platform TRON 2, the five-fingered Wuji Hand 2, equipped with dance technology, as a set of "arms-held mobile handsets". This combination recently completed a complete test in a Chinese pharmacy: the drug grabbing, pendulum measurement, crushing and packing.
The focus of this verification is not to demonstrate a specific VLA operation, nor to show which specific scenarios a skilled hand can operate in, but rather to present a mechanical arm equipped with a skilled hand, a solution that combines machinery, power supply, communications, and four-tiered data links to match the capabilities given by both parties, and the user gets a set of open-ended arm portfolios.
So how do you do that?
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Chinese pharmacies are just exams: what is each action looking at?
Chinese pharmacies grabbed non-specific objects, hand-to-hand coordination, force-control stability, tool use, point-to-point flow of several difficult problems, pressing on the same line of work. These are precisely the most tricky challenges of arm-to-arm cooperation.
The first test, material grabbing. A typical sample of non-specific objects in Chinese medicine: fine particles, different shapes mixed, different sizes, irregular shapes, surface slippery, easier to scatter after stacking, end-to-end posture, very low turn-off capacity. The Wuji Hand 2 has 20 active full-direct drive frequency, full-hand size about 180×80×40mm, close to the human hand; according to the dance muscles, its full-direct drive program can achieve full pair of fingers, supporting side swing.
The second test, suspended operation. Measuring instruments are not placed on the platform, one side bearing, one side speeding. At this time, the mechanical arm is not only a moving instrument, but also serves as a stable platform. According to the official manual, TRON 2 single arm repeated positioning accuracy ±0.5mm; in the demonstration video, the arm suspension holds and gesture mitigation does not see any apparent vibration throughout.
The third test, the trivial operation. The tool uses superimposed cyclical shocks, the counter-action force is transmitted through the wrist to the arm and body. The agile hand needs to have a high load stable grip capacity. The Wuji Hand 2 static grip holds up to 12 kg. The mechanical arm must maintain its position stable under continuous disruption, maintaining the body posture by precisely controlling the force of flexible traction.
Fourth, package packaging. Packing is typical linkage, the object being operated will change shape continuously, pure position control is not established, and must rely on force feedback and touch signal synchronization correction. Wuji Hand 2 has a 24×32 point range of flexible touch array, covering the tip of the finger to the thumb. The transmission efficiency is improved by 20% compared to the previous generation, and the less torque is lowered to 0.05N.
The final layer is mobile operations. The process in the pharmacy needs to flow between multiple points, such as the pharmacy cabinet, operating desk, packing area. The TRON 2 arm is 70 cm long, accompanied by a four-way moving bottom, freeing the hands from the fixed base. When the movement and operation are combined, the overall stability and force control directly affect the endpoint of landing.
This skill set has comparable references: the inaugural Second World Games of Human Robots for the first time set up a special competition for the finer hand, which examined the finer movements of the pumpkin beans, powder measurements, opening bottle caps, nail-fixing. The two teams with deep intelligence entered the Wuji Hand 2 competition, achieving eight overall promotions and seven promotions, respectively.
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What is the meaning of "all-link communication"?
The reference is the secondary development system of TRON 2: according to the official information, the secondary development material can be implemented in 30 minutes, 2 hours after environmental configuration to real-time deployment. This is the link along which the arm-handed program is shown. In order for this phrase to be established in the same combination of arm-handed, it needs to be combined with the mechanical, power supply, communication, and data quadrants.
In this program, the hardware transfer and installation adaptation is done by step-by-step dynamics in advance, with the user receiving a well-equipped arm combination. Dancing technology opens up the sophisticated hardware design files, such as the transfer board, armrests and soft claw suits, STEP source files, which developers can directly import into CAD to make secondary modifications and 3D printing. The TRON 2 user manual also lists end-to-end support for smart hands, so that the "arm claw wrist" has a matching base in physical size.
TRON 2 provides standardized communication interfaces, user manuals specify single-arms 7-DoF, ±0.5mm repeat positioning, remote control delays down to 100ms. It provides a Wuji Hand Ros2 drive package, support for 1000Hz node release, support for Python SDK and URDF/MuJoCo MJCF/NVIDIA USD. At the same time, it provides gesture orientation systems based on DexRetargeting algorithms, which are natively compatible with Apple Vision Pro, PICO 4, HTC Vive and 526 touchpoint data sets.
It is one of the easiest parts of its own collection link. This program does not allow users to reconfigure: TRON 2 itself integrates native data collection and management platforms, covers the collection, training, verification to the full closure of the deployment of the machine, and after the end is changed to Wuji Hand 2, the manual operation and state data enter the same set of pipelines.
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Why these two: one split job, one standard long run
The symmetry of this collaboration is more accurate than that of "one empowering the other".
For the first time ever, the Wuji Hand 2 was fully embedded in a real workpiece called "movable + high-precision two-arms synchronization + multi-point movement": its previous highlight was more on the racetrack of racing specialties and model teams. According to the Wuji Hand, a public demonstration of the core hand hardware used by overseas model company Genesis AI was based on a customized version of the Wuji Hand prototype.
There are also industry outlets that combine dance-muscle technology with critical points, Sharpa, strong-brain technology as the new "four little dragons" of the sleek hand racing circuit, and the low-cost supporting sidewall of the human integrated dance-muscle, the positioning itself determines its natural biting relationship with the host factory, rather than the independent closed-door generation.
According to official parameters, the two-legged form has a maximum load of 30 kg and a duration of 4 hours. Adapted to Pi 0.5 and ACT, family scene 10 typical task data set and deployment examples, the body starts at 598 000 yuan.
Looking at the industry, the business model of Flexible Hands is currently roughly three-way. One is not just selling: Uber has made Flexible Hands into the G1 standard configuration with the whole machine shipped, customers get the "Flexible Hands Whole" system. The second is equipped with the smallest system: the former Tesla Optimus Flexible Hands Head, TetherIA founder Tao Yi Wei has said frankly that Flexible Hands must at least be the smallest workable robot with the pair of arms, wanting to work in general and can also be added to the mobile platform. This means that the seller is essentially selling the "Flexible Hands + Flexible" system.
This division of the "Master Factory + Professional Modular" is placed in a larger coordinate system, corresponding to the layered evolution of physical intelligence that is undergoing.
According to industry data, the global market for human-simulated hands is expected to exceed $4.7 billion in 2025, $26 billion in 2030; demand in China alone is expected to exceed 800,000 sets in 2030. The real constraints in front of the industry are equally clear: hands with high-frequency touch bands, single-price levels still in the tens of millions, and the reliable life of some products in high-intensity continuous operation is only a few months. Determining the speed of commercialization, is no longer "can't do it", but "can't be stable, low-cost".
It's not the same as a set of standards. It's the lack of synchronous sensors, endpoints, and sensors in the marketplace. It's the fact that protocols and data formats don't evolve into utilities and public standards like the automotive industry. It's up to the industry to decide who should pass on some of their own standards. The industry is already talking about software hardware decomposition, modular integration, cross-core compatibility and heterogeneity, and calling for a unified data interface and data isolation.
Back to the reverse: money and parameters are moving forward, but fewer than 20,000 hands are actually used. In the middle, there are interfaces, control logic, and data links that no one is willing to actively take over.
So the most realistic proposition in the industry right now is that it's never about who can do it the hard way. The body, the end, the sensors, the models run wild, who can align them, make interfaces mutually recognizable, make single-point capabilities reusable.
Step-by-step dynamics and dance-muscle technology provide a referenceable answer: on the one hand, a general mobile two-arm core with an open development base, on the other hand, extreme the end, and then align the machinery, power supply, electricity, control, and data four-layer links, handing out solutions that can be directly accessed to the scene verification.
This set of actions may not contain a bright narrative, but it is a necessary passage from the podium to the production line. When decentralized single-point capabilities are connected layer by layer, physical intelligence can be formed into a unified force that truly becomes a productive force.