Unitree Unveils Dex5-S Dexterous Hand With 22 Joints

The interesting detail is not the joint count but the backdriving and per-joint impact protection, which point to hands meant for contact-rich manipulation rather than scripted demos. That matters for the wider robotics supply chain, where dexterous hands remain a bottleneck for useful humanoid labor. Pricing and availability being withheld is the tell: Unitree is signaling capability while keeping commercial terms close. Whether these specs survive into shipping units, and whether third-party developers get access, is the open question.