GENTO Unveils a 21-DoF Dexterous Hand at CoRL 2026

Tianji Intelligence's robotics brand showed a 21-degree-of-freedom hand and the platforms behind NVIDIA's GR00T 2 demos.

GENTO, the embodied robotics brand of Tianji Intelligence, has unveiled a 21-degree-of-freedom dexterous hand at the Conference on Robot Learning in Austin, its first public showing of the in-house hand.

The prototype has five active degrees of freedom in the thumb and four in each of the other fingers. It weighs 750 grams, measures 200 by 96 by 45 millimeters, and is rated for 10 newtons of fingertip force, a 0.5-second open-close, and one million no-load grasp cycles. Every joint is backdrivable, so an outside force can move the fingers - the point being that the hand can yield on contact instead of fighting it.

GENTO also showed two platforms at CoRL. Luna, a humanoid, mirrors a visitor's movements in real time and hands objects back. Marvin Pro, a fixed-base dual-arm platform, picks up the object a visitor describes in spoken English. Both run on Tianji's force-controlled arms, which the company says can detect torque down to 0.02 newton-meters.

The same hardware showed up in NVIDIA's GR00T 2 launch. NVIDIA used a Marvin Pro built to its specification to demonstrate the new world action model: researchers recorded hand movements with a wearable exoskeleton, and the robot, running GR00T 2, performed two-handed tasks such as preparing banana yogurt.