Tactile Sensing

IDC forecasts global dexterous hand shipments of about 25,000 units in 2026, excluding captive internal supply, with Chinese vendors expected to account for over 85% of the market. The report says competition is shifting from hardware specs like degrees of freedom and grip force toward tactile sensing, fine manipulation and coordination with embodied AI models, while demand remains concentrated in humanoid robot integration, research and data collection, with industrial scale deployment still unproven.