AgiBot OmniHand Series

AgiBot OmniHand Series: Complete Guide to AgiBot's Dexterous Robot Hand Lineup

The OmniHand family spans multiple product tiers. The OmniHand 2025 (also called the Agile model) focuses on compact, lightweight interactive service applications with 16 degrees of freedom and over 400 tactile contact points. The OmniHand Pro 2025 is a higher-capability industrial variant with 19 degrees of freedom, a maximum 20-Newton fingertip force, and multi-modal sensing reaching 0.01-Newton-level sensitivity for demanding manufacturing and research tasks. In April 2026, AgiBot announced the OmniHand 3 Ultra-T as the flagship of a new generation, featuring a 22-plus-3 degree-of-freedom tendon-driven system, full-hand 3D tactile sensing, and an integrated palm camera.

The OmniHand family spans multiple product tiers. The OmniHand 2025 (also called the Agile model) focuses on compact, lightweight interactive service applications with 16 degrees of freedom and over 400 tactile contact points. The OmniHand Pro 2025 is a higher-capability industrial variant with 19 degrees of freedom, a maximum 20-Newton fingertip force, and multi-modal sensing reaching 0.01-Newton-level sensitivity for demanding manufacturing and research tasks. In April 2026, AgiBot announced the OmniHand 3 Ultra-T as the flagship of a new generation, featuring a 22-plus-3 degree-of-freedom tendon-driven system, full-hand 3D tactile sensing, and an integrated palm camera.

OmniHand 2025

Design and Physical Specifications

The OmniHand 2025, described by AgiBot as a "Compact High-DOF Interactive Dexterous Hand," is the accessible-tier configuration in the series, designed for interactive service applications and robot integration where compact dimensions and light weight are primary requirements.

Physical Specifications:

• Total length: 180 mm
• Weight: 500 g
• Active degrees of freedom: 10
• Passive degrees of freedom: 6
• Total degrees of freedom: 16
• Maximum fingertip force: 5 N
• Tactile resolution: 0.1 N array resolution
• Tactile points: Over 400 touch-sensitive force control points
• Operating voltage: 24 V
• Communication interfaces: CANFD and RS485
• Pricing: 9,800 RMB (approximately $1,350 USD)

The hand follows a five-finger anthropomorphic layout with an opposable thumb, three central fingers optimized for precision and wrap grasps, and a supportive little finger for lateral stabilization. The 180mm total length and 500g weight make it compatible with a wide range of humanoid robot wrist interfaces and collaborative robot arms without requiring structural reinforcement.

Tactile Sensing System

The 400-plus touch-sensitive force control points distributed across the hand provide contact information at a 0.1-Newton array resolution. The controller fuses normal pressure data for contact onset and grip force estimation, and shear or slip signatures from micro-vibration sensing, enabling the hand to detect when an object is beginning to slide  and tighten its grip preemptively  rather than reacting only after the object has dropped.

An anti-pinch design across the hand geometry is a safety feature specifically oriented toward human-robot interaction contexts, where the hand may make contact with human skin during assistive service tasks. The back-of-hand touch interaction capability adds a social-facing dimension, allowing the OmniHand 2025 to respond to human physical contact through the robot's interaction AI system.

Developer Ecosystem

The OmniHand 2025 is supported by the OmniHand Agile 2025 SDK, released as open source under the Mulan PSL v2 license on GitHub. The SDK supports both Python and C++ API interfaces for implementing dexterous hand control and data acquisition functions. It provides access to joint position control, tactile sensor data streams, and force control modes, and is compatible with CANFD communication through ZLG USBCANFD series adapters (recommended: USBCANFD-100U-mini, USBCANFD-100U, or USBCANFD-200U).

AgiBot's document center provides a dedicated Technical Specifications PDF for the OmniHand 2025 (updated February 1, 2026), host software and firmware packages, and a URDF model for integration with robotics simulation environments.

Standard Purchase Package Contents: OmniHand x1, RS485 Communication Cable x1, CANFD Communication Cable x1, Power Cable x1, Type-C Data Cable x1, Certificate of Conformity x1.

OmniHand Pro 2025

Design and Physical Specifications

The OmniHand Pro 2025, described by AgiBot as a "High-Integration Multi-Functional Dexterous Hand," is the industrial-grade tier of the series, targeting demanding manufacturing tasks, advanced research, and deployment on AgiBot's G2 industrial humanoid as a high-capability end-effector for parcel sorting and precision assembly.

Physical Specifications:

• Weight: 750 g
• Total degrees of freedom: 19
• Maximum fingertip force: 20 N (four times the OmniHand 2025's 5 N maximum)
• Sensing resolution: Up to 0.01-Newton-level sensitivity with intelligent algorithms
• Sensing modalities: Position, normal force, tangential force, proximity
• Communication interfaces: CANFD
• SDK: Available on GitHub under Mulan PSL v2 license
• Pricing: Higher than the OmniHand 2025; enterprise quotation basis

Multi-Modal Sensing System

The OmniHand Pro 2025's sensing architecture goes substantially beyond the OmniHand 2025's tactile array, incorporating multi-modal sensing across four channels: position, normal force, tangential force, and proximity. The 0.01-Newton-level sensitivity with intelligent algorithms represents precision an order of magnitude finer than the 0.1-Newton baseline of the OmniHand 2025.

The tangential force sensing capability — the ability to detect shear forces across the fingertip surface as distinct from simple normal pressure — enables much more reliable slip detection and in-hand reorientation of objects. When an object begins to rotate or slide within the grasp, the controller can detect this motion through the changing distribution of tangential forces across the tactile array and apply corrective adjustments before the grasp fails. This is the type of closed-loop tactile feedback that makes the difference between a robot hand that can handle a diverse range of objects reliably and one that frequently drops items with smooth or irregular surfaces.

An optional 6-axis palm force-torque sensor is available for whole-hand control applications, enabling grasp stability analysis, controlled handover of objects between the robot and a human, and precise force regulation during contact-rich assembly tasks.

Industrial Applications

The OmniHand Pro 2025 was specifically demonstrated at the G2 industrial robot's October 2025 launch event for logistics sorting: the G2, equipped with the OmniHand Pro, effectively grasped parcels of various sizes, shapes, and materials on a logistics sorting line without pre-sorting by type or using task-specific gripper tooling. This demonstration validated the Pro's core value proposition — a single end-effector that handles diverse object geometries — in a production context rather than a laboratory setting.

Developer Resources

The OmniHand Pro 2025 SDK is available on GitHub (repository: AgibotTech/OmniHand-Pro-2025) under the Mulan PSL v2 open-source license. It supports Python and C++ API interfaces. AgiBot's document center provides the OmniHand Pro 2025 Technical Specifications PDF (updated February 1, 2026), host software and firmware packages, a URDF file for simulation, and a 3D model. ROS 2 drivers, grasp libraries, and real-time bus integration documentation support deployment in research and industrial robotic systems.

The Pro also supports field-swappable modular fingertips, allowing operators to change friction characteristics, electrostatic discharge (ESD) behavior, or surface texture by swapping snap-in fingertip pads and screw-in inserts in minutes, without redesigning the end-effector tooling. This modularity is particularly useful in industrial environments where the robot handles both ESD-sensitive components (electronics) and standard packaged goods in the same facility.

OmniHand 3 Ultra-T

At AgiBot's 2026 Partner Conference on April 18, 2026, the company announced the OmniHand 3 Ultra-T as the flagship of a new third-generation OmniHand platform, described by AgiBot as delivering "industry-leading, human-level dexterity."

Published Specifications:

• Actuation: 22 active + 3 passive degrees of freedom (tendon-driven)
• Weight: 500 g (same as the OmniHand 2025 despite 22 active DoF)
• Load-to-weight ratio: 10:1
• Sensing: Full-hand 3D tactile sensing
• Additional sensor: Integrated palm camera
• Response time: Sub-0.3 seconds
• Wrist range: 55-degree pitch, 40-degree yaw
• Applications: High-precision manipulation in industrial, logistics, home, and service environments

The OmniHand 3 Ultra-T's combination of 22 active degrees of freedom at only 500 grams represents a significant advance in the power-to-weight ratio of dexterous robot hands. The integrated palm camera provides first-person visual feedback from the hand's perspective, enabling visual-tactile fusion for object recognition and grasp planning without relying entirely on external vision systems. The 10:1 load-to-weight ratio indicates that the hand can manipulate objects weighing up to 5 kilograms — a meaningful working payload for manufacturing and logistics tasks — within its 500-gram structural envelope.

Alongside the OmniHand 3 Ultra-T, AgiBot announced two companion products in the new generation: OmniHand 3 Lite, a ruggedized dexterous hand designed for high-impact environments where durability is the primary requirement; and OmniPicker 3, an industrial-grade adaptive gripper with 140-Newton force capacity, 1,000,000-cycle durability rating, and modular tactile sensing, providing a lighter-duty but high-endurance alternative for manufacturing lines where the full dexterity of the OmniHand is not required.

Technology and Actuation Design

Tendon-Driven Architecture

All OmniHand variants use tendon transmission routed over low-backlash pulleys. Key phalanges are differentially coupled for passive shape adaptation, meaning that when a finger closes around an object, the tendon force distributes naturally across all finger segments that contact the surface, conforming to the object's geometry without requiring the controller to specify every joint angle. This underactuated approach substantially reduces control complexity while improving grasp reliability on irregular objects.

For joints where fine positioning matters — the thumb's opposition axis and the index finger's distal phalanx — independently driven degrees of freedom provide the precision needed for pinch grasps of small or thin objects such as coins, USB connectors, or blister packs.

Communication and Integration Interfaces

The OmniHand 2025 supports both CANFD and RS485 interfaces, providing compatibility with a wide range of robot controller architectures. CANFD (Controller Area Network with Flexible Data-rate) provides high-speed, low-latency real-time communication suitable for responsive force control, while RS485 offers a simpler serial interface for less demanding integration contexts. The OmniHand Pro 2025 uses CANFD exclusively, reflecting its higher-performance real-time control requirements.

The ROS 2 driver support across the OmniHand line is an important practical integration feature, as ROS 2 is the standard middleware for research and development robotics. Teams building manipulation systems on ROS 2 can integrate the OmniHand with existing perception, planning, and control modules without writing custom communication layers.

Open-Source SDK and Simulation Support

Both the OmniHand 2025 and OmniHand Pro 2025 SDKs are published open source on GitHub under the Mulan PSL v2 license, with Python and C++ API support. URDF models allow the hands to be imported into simulation environments for grasp planning, collision checking, and training of manipulation policies before deploying to hardware. This simulation compatibility is particularly valuable for teams using AgiBot's Genie Sim 3.0 or NVIDIA Isaac Sim, as virtual hands can be tested in simulated manipulation scenarios to evaluate policies before physical deployment.

Applications and Use Cases

Interactive Service Robotics

The OmniHand 2025's compact size, 500g weight, anti-pinch safety design, and back-of-hand touch interaction capability make it the preferred configuration for service robots deployed in customer-facing environments. Demonstrations on the AgiBot A2 series have shown the OmniHand performing everyday service tasks including unpacking deliveries, pouring water, handing objects to people, and executing gestures during guided presentations.

Precision Manufacturing and Assembly

The OmniHand Pro 2025's 20-Newton maximum fingertip force and multi-modal tactile sensing with 0.01-Newton sensitivity enable it to handle precision manufacturing tasks including electronics assembly, screw insertion, and component placement in fixtures that require controlled contact forces. The G2 industrial robot equipped with the OmniHand Pro was demonstrated for RAM module insertion and seatbelt lock cylinder assembly at AgiBot's G2 launch event, confirming industrial deployment readiness.

Logistics Sorting and Mixed-SKU Handling

The OmniHand Pro's ability to grasp parcels of varying sizes, shapes, and materials without gripper changeover is its most commercially validated use case. Logistics facilities that handle mixed-product orders — where each item may have a different geometry, weight, and surface texture — have historically required either human pickers or complex end-effector changeover systems. A single OmniHand Pro on a mobile robot replaces this with a single dexterous end-effector capable of adapting its grasp to each unique item.

Research and Education

The open-source SDK, URDF models, Python and C++ APIs, and ROS 2 support make both OmniHand variants well suited for university robotics labs studying grasping, manipulation planning, tactile sensing, and embodied AI policy learning. The OmniHand 2025's 9,800 RMB price point — the first high-DOF commercial dexterous hand under 10,000 RMB — is specifically intended to make dexterous manipulation research accessible to a broader academic community than previous high-cost research hands allowed.

Embodied AI and Policy Learning

As embodied AI methods including imitation learning and Vision-Language-Action models move from demonstration to production, the quality of training data becomes critical. The OmniHand's tactile sensors provide richer state feedback during teleoperation demonstrations, capturing not just joint positions but contact patterns, grip forces, and slip events that are essential for learning manipulation policies that generalize to new objects and environments. The compatibility with AgiBot's AgiBot World dataset ecosystem means OmniHand-equipped robots contribute to the company's shared manipulation dataset.

Advantages and Benefits

Industry-Breaking Price Point for the Agile Model: At 9,800 RMB, the OmniHand 2025 was announced as the first high-DOF dexterous hand priced under 10,000 RMB, substantially broadening access to dexterous manipulation hardware for research institutions, startups, and smaller robotics integrators that previously could not afford commercial dexterous hands.

Tendon-Driven Compliance for Versatile Grasping: The underactuated differential tendon design enables passive shape adaptation across diverse object geometries without complex joint-by-joint programming, substantially simplifying the control requirements for deploying the OmniHand in unstructured environments.

Multi-Modal Tactile Feedback Enables Real-World Reliability: The integration of position, normal force, tangential force, and proximity sensing (Pro model) or 400-plus point tactile arrays (Agile model) allows the OmniHand to detect and respond to contact events that position-only control systems miss, including incipient slip detection and gentle handling of deformable objects.

Open-Source SDK Accelerates Integration: The Mulan PSL v2-licensed SDK with Python and C++ support, combined with URDF models and ROS 2 drivers, allows research and development teams to integrate the OmniHand into existing robotics stacks in days rather than weeks.

Modular Fingertip System: Field-swappable fingertip inserts (Pro model) allow customization of friction, texture, and ESD characteristics without hardware redesign, enabling a single OmniHand to serve multiple task contexts within the same facility.

Cross-Platform Compatibility: The OmniHand Series is explicitly designed for use with both AgiBot's own robot platforms and third-party robot arms and humanoids, maximizing the addressable market and making it valuable to teams that use AgiBot accessories with non-AgiBot robot hardware.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

What is the AgiBot OmniHand Series? The AgiBot OmniHand Series is a family of dexterous five-finger robot hands designed for integration with humanoid robots, collaborative robot arms, and mobile manipulators. The series includes the OmniHand 2025 (Agile model, 16 total DoF, 500g, priced at 9,800 RMB), the OmniHand Pro 2025 (19 DoF, 750g, 20N fingertip force, multi-modal tactile sensing), and the next-generation OmniHand 3 Ultra-T (22+3 DoF, 500g, full-hand 3D tactile sensing, integrated palm camera), announced in April 2026.

How does the AgiBot OmniHand work? The OmniHand uses tendon-driven actuation with differentially coupled phalanges that passively adapt finger shape to irregular object geometries during grasping. Independently driven degrees of freedom at the thumb and index fingertip provide fine positioning for precision tasks. Multi-zone tactile arrays — with 400-plus contact points on the OmniHand 2025 and 0.01-Newton-level multi-modal sensing on the Pro — detect contact onset, grip force, and slip events in real time, enabling the controller to trigger grip-adjusting reflexes before objects drop. The hands communicate through CANFD or RS485 interfaces and are programmed via Python or C++ SDKs.

What makes the AgiBot OmniHand 2025 significant for the robotics industry? The OmniHand 2025 was announced as the first high-degree-of-freedom dexterous robot hand priced under 10,000 RMB (approximately $1,350 USD). This pricing represents a substantial reduction from previous commercial dexterous hands, which typically started at $10,000 and could reach $200,000 for research-grade platforms. The lower price point makes dexterous manipulation hardware accessible to a much broader community of robotics researchers, developers, and small-to-medium enterprises exploring autonomous manipulation applications.

Where can I buy an AgiBot OmniHand? The OmniHand 2025 is available on AgiBot's official store at store.agibot.com and through distributor RCDrone.top, which offers left and right configurations with an optional tactile sensor version. The OmniHand Pro 2025 is available through enterprise quotation via AgiBot's official channels or through authorized distributors such as American Satellite. The OmniHand 3 series (Ultra-T, Lite, OmniPicker 3) was announced in April 2026, with purchase channels to be confirmed through AgiBot's official communications.

What are the differences between the OmniHand 2025 and the OmniHand Pro 2025? The OmniHand 2025 has 10 active and 6 passive degrees of freedom (16 total), weighs 500g, has a 5-Newton maximum fingertip force, and provides 400-plus tactile contact points at 0.1-Newton resolution. It is priced at 9,800 RMB and targets interactive service applications. The OmniHand Pro 2025 has 19 total degrees of freedom, weighs 750g, has a 20-Newton maximum fingertip force, and provides multi-modal sensing (position, normal force, tangential force, proximity) at up to 0.01-Newton-level sensitivity. The Pro also features field-swappable modular fingertips, an optional 6-axis palm force-torque sensor, IP-rated protective covers, and is intended for industrial manufacturing, logistics, and advanced research applications.

What robots are compatible with the AgiBot OmniHand? The OmniHand 2025 is designed for compatibility with various humanoid robot models and third-party robotic arms, and AgiBot explicitly markets it as suitable for diverse robot integration. The OmniHand Pro 2025 is the standard end-effector option for AgiBot's G2 industrial robot and is compatible as an optional accessory for the X2 Ultra humanoid. Both variants provide URDF models and SDK packages for integration with robotics simulation environments and middleware including ROS 2.

Summary

The AgiBot OmniHand Series represents a systematic effort to make commercially viable dexterous manipulation accessible across research, industrial, and service robotics — a challenge that has historically been constrained by cost, complexity, and reliability limitations. The OmniHand 2025's price breakthrough at 9,800 RMB brings high-DOF dexterous hands within reach of university labs and small enterprises for the first time. The OmniHand Pro 2025 brings 0.01-Newton multi-modal tactile sensing and 20-Newton fingertip force to industrial logistics and assembly tasks. The announced OmniHand 3 Ultra-T pushes the state of the art with 22 active degrees of freedom, full-hand 3D tactile sensing, and an integrated palm camera in a 500-gram package. Together with an open-source SDK, ROS 2 support, URDF models, and deep integration across AgiBot's humanoid and wheeled robot platforms, the OmniHand Series offers a technically credible, commercially accessible, and continuously improving dexterous manipulation platform for the embodied AI era.