Gold · #1 Dexterous Hand
BarrettHand™ BH8-282
Barrett
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file
53.60
RoboIndex
53.60 score · no news lift
Dexterous Hand · scores as of 4 Oct 2026 · updated 4 Oct 2026
Top Dexterous Hand Robots
14 robots ranked by RoboIndex — the RoboScore for evidence, plus up to 15 points of Momentum for a maker with live news. Evidence still decides; news only reorders what was already close.
The top-ranked dexterous hand robot on Robolist.ai is BarrettHand™ BH8-282 (Barrett), with a RoboIndex of 53.60.
Close behind: Linker Hand L30 (Tendon Drive) (LinkerBot) at 53.08, then Linker Hand L10 (LinkerBot) at 51.88.
Robolist.ai ranks 14 dexterous hand robots by RoboIndex as of 4 Oct 2026.
Silver · #2 Dexterous Hand
Linker Hand L30 (Tendon Drive)
LinkerBot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file
53.08
RoboIndex
52.08 score + 1.00 momentum
Bronze · #3 Dexterous Hand
Linker Hand L10
LinkerBot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file
51.88
RoboIndex
51.38 score + 0.50 momentum
tied on score with 1 other
- Rank
- Where you stand. RoboIndex is RoboScore + Momentum — the 0–100 evidence figure plus up to 15 points for a maker in the news. Both parts are printed on every row, so you can check the sum.
- Momentum
- What's happening now. Up to 15 points, from news events that decay over 90 days. It can lift a rank, never sink one — a quiet maker keeps its RoboScore in full. Recomputed daily, so positions can move between weekly score freezes.
- Movers
- A lens, not a page. The same list re-sorted by momentum change — see this week's.
The rest of the standing
4–14 of 14#
Robot · maker
RoboIndex
Score Δ
4
Linker Hand R30 (Direct Drive)
CNLinkerBot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file · tied on score with 1 other
51.8851.38+0.50
—held 3 wks+
5
Linker Hand L20
CNLinkerBot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file · tied on score with 1 other
51.7351.23+0.50
—held 3 wks+
6
Linker Hand O6
CNLinkerBot
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file · tied on score with 1 other
51.7351.23+0.50
—held 3 wks+
8
+0.55proven track record added
9
—held 3 wks+
10
RH56BFX Dexterous Hand
CNInspire-Robots
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file · tied on score with 1 other
—held 3 wks+
11
RH56DFX Dexterous Hand
CNInspire-Robots
no confirmed customer · launch year not on file · tied on score with 1 other
—held 3 wks+
12
—held 3 wks+
14 ranked1 changed their own score this week7 held out as pre-2020
At a glance · top 10
- 1. BarrettHand™ BH8-282 (Barrett, United States) — RoboIndex 53.60.
- 2. Linker Hand L30 (Tendon Drive) (LinkerBot, China) — RoboIndex 53.08.
- 3. Linker Hand L10 (LinkerBot, China) — RoboIndex 51.88.
- 4. Linker Hand R30 (Direct Drive) (LinkerBot, China) — RoboIndex 51.88.
- 5. Linker Hand L20 (LinkerBot, China) — RoboIndex 51.73.
- 6. Linker Hand O6 (LinkerBot, China) — RoboIndex 51.73.
- 7. DEX-EE (Shadow Robot, United Kingdom) — RoboIndex 51.60, launched 2024.
- 8. RH56E2 Dexterous Hand (Inspire-Robots, China) — RoboIndex 51.21, launched 2023.
- 9. RH56F1 Dexterous Hand (Inspire-Robots, China) — RoboIndex 50.52.
- 10. RH56BFX Dexterous Hand (Inspire-Robots, China) — RoboIndex 49.84.
How we rank
RoboIndex ranks each robot by RoboScore — a 0–100 evidence score — plus up to 15 Momentum points for a maker with live news. Momentum can only add to a rank, never subtract from one.
Which robot ranks #1 for Dexterous Hand?
BarrettHand™ BH8-282 (Barrett) ranks #1 for Dexterous Hand as of 4 Oct 2026, by RoboIndex.
How many dexterous hand robots does Robolist.ai rank?
Robolist.ai ranks 14 dexterous hand robots as of 4 Oct 2026.
How is RoboIndex calculated?
RoboIndex is RoboScore — a 0-100 evidence score from structured data — plus up to 15 Momentum points from dated news, which decay over about 90 days. Momentum can only add to the score, never subtract from it. Full breakdown at /methodology.
How often is the Dexterous Hand standing updated?
Scores freeze once a week; the board shows that weekly standing. This standing is current as of 4 Oct 2026.
The Score Δ column only moves when a robot's own score moved. It is not a report on the week: rank position drifts whenever a neighbour moves, and publishing that as an arrow would be inventing movement. A robot that did not change reports how long it has sat where it sits, in days and then in weeks — so a score that settled last week is told apart from one nothing has touched in months. A trailing + means that streak runs back to the 30 July rescoring and is a floor, because no score can be compared across a change of formula.
Robots first sold before 2020 are held out of the standing. Robots with no recorded launch year stay in — an unknown year is not evidence of age, and treating missing data as old would quietly delete most of the catalogue.
Momentum belongs to the maker, not the robot. Every robot a maker sells moves together. Where we have no news signal at all the row says so in words rather than showing a zero — a zero would claim the company is quiet, when all we actually know is that we have not heard anything.
Makers are ranked on a separate board. A robot is never ranked against a company, so Top Dexterous Hand Companies is its own standing, built from each maker's robots in this category alone.
How this ranking is built — the factors behind the score, the year gate, how ties are ordered, and why Momentum is capped and bonus-only rather than averaged into the score.