TARS is presenting its DexHand robotic hand and AWE 3.0 embodied AI system at ICRA 2026 in Vienna, where the company is demonstrating robotic manipulation tasks involving tactile sensing, hand gestures and industrial assembly.
The company is showing the technology under the theme “Mind to Hand” at the Vienna Congress & Convention Center. Its 21-degree-of-freedom DexHand is built at human scale and incorporates micro-cameras and elastomer tactile sensors designed to capture visual and tactile information, including texture-related details.
According to TARS, DexHand is powered by the company’s AWE embodied foundation model and can interpret tactile data related to slipperiness, roughness and hardness in real time. The hand is also being used to demonstrate finger control through transitions between hand gestures representing the 26 letters of the English alphabet.
TARS is also demonstrating its A1 robot equipped with DexHand and driven by AWE 3.0. The demonstrations include multi-step packing tasks, such as grasping and organizing items and zipping a backpack, as well as wire harness insertion requiring sub-millimeter precision. In the demonstration described by the company, the robot is designed to respond to deliberate changes in cable port positions by re-perceiving the scene, replanning and completing the task without human intervention.
Dr. Ding Wenchao, co-founder and chief scientist of TARS, is scheduled to deliver an industry keynote titled “General Physical Intelligence,” covering the company’s technology roadmap from research to industrial deployment.
TARS says its research spans perception, whole-body control and generalized task execution. The company also says research and development personnel make up more than 80% of its workforce, that more than 80% of its team members hold master’s or doctoral degrees, and that its team has published more than 40 papers in robotics-related fields.
