TACTILIA

TACTILIA builds robotic hands for industrial and humanoid applications, covering both tendon-driven and direct-drive actuation architectures. The company was spun out of SCHUNK and carries a decade of robotic-hand expertise, with real industrial access through the parent company. Its engineering approach is application-driven: actuation topology is selected to match what a given task requires rather than one architecture being applied across the board. The range spans lean industrial grippers through fully dexterous anthropomorphic hands.

The product lineup includes SDH, a modular three-finger hand; SVH, a dexterous five-finger hand; SIH, a power tendon-driven hand; and a next-generation anthropomorphic hand launching soon. These are sold as an integrated platform rather than as separate line items: a shared hand-engineering backbone, trained grip skills, and the software to run them are packaged together. The stated goal is to close gaps in Physical AI by combining hardware, trained manipulation behavior, and control software in one system.

The company positions itself as commercially focused rather than as a research project - the product exists, customers are ready to use it, and it is launching now. Teams combine deep-tech startup pace with industrial heritage, and work spans grasping and gripping technology, dexterous manipulation, anthropomorphic hand design, and grip skills software.