AISharpa's ping-pong playing, blackjack dealing humanoid is working overtime at CES 2026The company's super dexterous robotic hand, SharpaWave, allows it to pull individual playing cards from a deck.Cheyenne MacDonaldWeekend EditorFri, January 9, 2026 at 3:00 PM UTCThere were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth.The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.On display wasn't just the robot and its smarts, but also SharpaWave, a highly dexterous 1:1 scale human hand.The hand has 22 active degrees of freedom, according to the company, allowing for precise and intricate finger movements.
It mirrored my gestures as I wiggled my hand in front of its camera, getting everything mostly right, which was honestly pretty cool.Each fingertip contains a minicamera and over 1,000 tactile pixels so it can pick up objects with the appropriate amount of delicateness for the task at hand, like plucking a playing card from a deck and placing it gently on the table.Sharpa's robot was a pretty good ping-pong player, too.We've seen ping-pong robots plenty of times before, but these typically come in the form of a disembodied robotic arm, not one that's humanoid from the waist up.
The company's products are meant to be general-purpose, with the ability to handle a wide range of jobs, and its humanoid wore a lot of hats at CES to drive the point home.
