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South Korean Startup Tesollo Begins Selling a Compact Robotic Hand Designed for Humanoid Robots

Incheon-based Tesollo announced the commercial launch of the DG-5F-S, a lightweight five-finger robotic hand built specifically for integration into humanoid robot platforms. The hand comes in two versions: a 20 degree-of-freedom model for full dexterity and a 15-DoF model for research and smaller platforms. Tesollo redesigned the hand from its earlier DG-5F-M to be significantly smaller and lighter while maintaining manipulation performance, addressing real-world constraints — weight limits, mounting interfaces, and system compatibility — that kept surfacing during customer deployments. The company says the DG-5F-S is not a research prototype but a commercial product based on validated customer needs, and it aims to lower the cost barrier for startups, research labs, and smaller companies building humanoid systems. Tesollo first debuted the hand at CES 2026 and has already supplied grippers to major Korean and global technology companies. Dexterous hands remain one of the hardest unsolved problems in humanoid robotics — as iRobot cofounder Rodney Brooks recently pointed out, the human hand has 17,000 mechanoreceptors that no robot comes close to replicating.

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