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Tesollo, a robotics gripper specialist, has been selected as an official hardware partner for the Robotic Origami Grand Challenge, organized by the open robotics network BitRobot Foundation.

The global competition is co-hosted by Frodobots Lab and the Nippon Origami Association, aiming to advance human-level cognition and precision manipulation through robotic AI and humanoid robotic hands.

With a total prize pool of USD 1 million, the challenge tasks researchers and teams to develop robots capable of autonomously folding origami through AI-based fine manipulation control.
Origami has long been considered an art form that only humans could perform, as it requires an exceptional degree of precision and dexterity.

To promote the challenge, Tesollo and the BitRobot Foundation jointly showcased a live demonstration during the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2025), held at COEX in Seoul starting on September 27.

At the BitRobot Foundation booth, Tesollo’s humanoid robotic hand DG-5F competes against a Japanese origami master in a live “origami duel.”
The DG-5F folds a sheet of paper into an airplane in real time, demonstrating delicate, human-like finger movements and precise motion control capabilities to the audience.

The DG-5F, featured at CoRL 2025, is a next-generation robotic hand equipped with 20 independent joints across five fingers, mimicking the anatomy of an adult human hand.
Designed for complex object manipulation, tool use, and precision assembly, it serves as an advanced end-effector optimized for industrial and research environments where dexterity and precision are essential.

Leveraging its strengths in high degrees of freedom, tool adaptability, and environmental responsiveness, the DG-5F goes beyond simple grasping.
It enables human-like precision manipulation, positioning itself as a new standard for next-generation robotic hands.

Meanwhile, the BitRobot Foundation, Tesollo’s co-demonstration partner, is an open network that allows researchers and developers worldwide to share AI models, datasets, and real robotic resources.

The challenge exemplifies BitRobot’s vision of global collaboration and open-source innovation, serving as a meaningful milestone that highlights the future direction of the robotics research ecosystem.

The joint demonstration presented at CoRL 2025, where robotics and AI researchers from around the world share their latest achievements, is expected to draw significant attention not only from academic participants but also from the global robotics industry.