Shadow Robot

• DEX-EE Hand
• Shadow Dexterous Hand Series

• DEX-EE Hand with MANUS gloves

  2026-06-15 - Physical Demo - Controlled By - Shadow Robot demonstrated both Shadow Hand and DEX-EE Chiral at ICRA 2026 using MANUS gloves.

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• UR10e at Shadow Teleoperation System

  Physical Demo - Mounted - Shadow Robot’s teleoperation system physically mounts its dexterous hands on Universal Robots UR10e arms.

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Supply chain relationships

• Protolabs

  Inbound - Manufacturing - Protolabs moulded finger parts and CNC-machined aluminium tactile-sensor parts for Shadow Dexterous Hand development

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• SynTouch

  Inbound - End Effectors - SynTouch BioTac sensors were a selectable integration for the Shadow Dexterous Hand

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• maxon

  Inbound - actuation and motion control - Shadow Robot DEX-EE uses 15 maxon DCX16 motors, with five motors per finger

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• Touchlab Robotics

  Inbound - Components - Touchlab Robotics supplies TACTO tactile e-skin for Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand

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• Polhemus

  Inbound - robotics sensors - Polhemus VIPER and Micro Sensors provide operator finger tracking in Shadow Robot's teleoperation system

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• 2019-04-17 - Innovation loan - $847K - Innovate UK awards Shadow Robot GBP 650k innovation loan for touch-transmitting teleoperation

  Innovate UK awarded Shadow Robot a GBP 650k innovation loan to develop touch-transmitting teleoperation technology using the company's Dexterous Hand. - source: shadowrobot.com

• Rich Walker - Managing Director - Leads company execution for Shadow Robot's dexterous hand and telerobotics business.
• Richard Greenhill - Founder - Founded Shadow Robot, the company behind the Shadow Dexterous Hand.

• OpenAI trains robotic hand to solve a Rubik's Cube with Automatic Domain Randomization

  2019-10-15 - Research Publication - OpenAI trained neural networks to solve a Rubik's Cube with a human-like robotic hand using reinforcement learning in simulation. The project introduced Automatic Domain Randomization to create progressively harder simulated environments for sim-to-real transfer. The system solved simpler scrambles 60 percent of the time and maximal-difficulty scrambles 20 percent of the time, making it a durable dexterous-manipulation milestone.

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Events

• 2026-10-20 - Partnership - Shadow Robot and Fraunhofer IFF begin tactile-manipulation research

  The project uses dexterous hands mounted on conventional collaborative robot arms, rather than developing a humanoid robot. Shadow contributes hand hardware, integration and teleoperation; IFF contributes cognitive robotics, real-time control and industrial-automation expertise. The partners will assess the dexterity, sensing, technical requirements and costs needed for manufacturing applications.

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• 2026-06-18 - Product Launch - Touchlab releases TACTO tactile e-skin at ICRA 2026

  Official integrations include the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand and Tesollo DG-5F. Touchlab says its sensor engineering focuses on activation force, sensitivity, noise, cross-talk, drift and mechanical integration.

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• 2026-06-15 - Demonstration - Demonstration: Shadow Robot demonstrated both Shadow Hand and DEX-EE Chiral at ICRA 2026 using MANUS gloves

  MANUS gloves were used to control Shadow Hand during its ICRA 2026 demonstration. The DEX-EE Chiral hand was demonstrated separately with the same glove interface.

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• 2025-05-29 - Award - ARIA awards GBP 11M R&D funding to Shadow Robot and partners

  ARIA awarded GBP 11M to Shadow Robot and partners for the OGRES and UPWARD advanced robotic-dexterity projects. OGRES focuses on robotic-hand design tooling and physical validation; UPWARD focuses on power distribution for more capable robot hands. The funding is non-dilutive R&D project funding, not a venture-capital equity round.

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• 2024-05-09 - Product Launch - Shadow Robot unveils DEX-EE hand developed with Google DeepMind

  Shadow Robot announced DEX-EE on May 9, 2024, positioning it as a robust dexterous hand for AI research. The company said DEX-EE was built by Shadow Robot and developed with research and insights from the Google DeepMind robotics team. Shadow said the hand would be demonstrated publicly at ICRA in May 2024.

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• 2019-10-15 - Research Publication - OpenAI trains robotic hand to solve a Rubik's Cube with Automatic Domain Randomization

  OpenAI trained neural networks to solve a Rubik's Cube with a human-like robotic hand using reinforcement learning in simulation. The project introduced Automatic Domain Randomization to create progressively harder simulated environments for sim-to-real transfer. The system solved simpler scrambles 60 percent of the time and maximal-difficulty scrambles 20 percent of the time, making it a durable dexterous-manipulation milestone.

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• 2019-04-17 - Funding - Innovate UK awards Shadow Robot GBP 650k innovation loan for touch-transmitting teleoperation

  Innovate UK awarded Shadow Robot a GBP 650k innovation loan for remote-touch teleoperation technology. The announcement centered on the Shadow Dexterous Hand, tactile fingertip sensing and haptic feedback for remote operation over long distances. Shadow positioned the work for hazardous or controlled environments including nuclear decommissioning, bomb disposal, space exploration and pharma labs.

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• 2018-06-24 - Partnership - Shadow Robot, SynTouch and HaptX demonstrate Tactile Telerobot

  Shadow Robot said the Tactile Telerobot integrated its dexterous hand with SynTouch BioTac sensors and HaptX haptic gloves. The team demonstrated an operator in California controlling a Shadow hand in London while receiving touch feedback from the robot fingertips. ANA Holdings funded and facilitated the integration as part of its Avatar initiative.

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• 2017-03-21 - Partnership - Shadow Robot starts Innovate UK semi-autonomous teleoperation project

  Shadow Robot said an Innovate UK-backed semi-autonomous teleoperation demonstrator launched on March 1, 2017. The project paired Shadow Dexterous Hand hardware with an OC Robotics snake-arm robot, Cambrian Intelligence augmented-VR work and UCL vision/testing support. The goal was to let operators command higher-level teleoperation tasks rather than directly controlling every robot movement.

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• 2016-09-15 - Product Launch - Shadow Robot launches Smart Grasping System at Innovate 2016

  Shadow Robot introduced the Smart Grasping System at Innovate 2016 as an industrial grasper with built-in intelligence. The company described a grasp library, an onboard vision system and torque sensing on each joint to support flexible object handling. The launch marked a push beyond academic dexterous-hand research toward industrial and service-robot manipulation use cases.

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• 2015-04-14 - Demonstration - Moley unveils robotic-chef prototype at Hannover Messe

  Moley unveiled its proof-of-concept robotic chef at Hannover Messe in April 2015. Two robotic arms reproduced chef Tim Anderson's captured movements to prepare crab bisque. Shadow Robot developed the prototype hands with twenty motors, twenty-four joints, and 129 sensors.

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Relationships

• Fraunhofer IFF

  Technology Partner - Shadow Robot and Fraunhofer IFF are researching tactile dexterous manipulation and teleoperation for manufacturing.

• Touchlab Robotics

  Tactile E Skin Integration - Touchlab TACTO tactile e-skin is officially integrated into the Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand.

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Context tags

• Dexterous robot hand builder - Peer Group - Canonical exact-product evidence: DEX-EE Hand. Source: https://shadowrobot.com/dex-ee_series/
• Dexterous in-hand manipulation - Workflow - Shadow Dexterous Hand supports multi-finger in-hand object manipulation.
• Teleoperated dexterity - Workflow - Shadow Dexterous Hand is used in teleoperated dexterity applications.
• Tactile robot hand control - Capability - Shadow Dexterous Hand uses tactile sensing for contact-rich manipulation.
• Dexterous hand OEM - Stack Layer - Shadow Robot builds complete multi-finger dexterous hand systems.
• Adaptive grasping - Capability - Shadow Dexterous Hand supports adaptive grasping for varied object geometries.
• Dexterous hand platforms - Peer Group - Supplies dexterous robotic hand platforms
• Dexterous manipulation - Capability - Core product: Shadow Dexterous Hand for manipulation tasks
• End-effector adjacent hardware - Stack Layer - Dexterous hand hardware for manipulation research and integration
• Component supply - Commercial Stage - Core business: dexterous hand hardware and R&D
• Force-controlled manipulation - Capability - Shadow Dexterous Hand uses force and torque sensing.
• Factories - Customer Environment - Research and industrial manipulation environments
• End effector - Stack Layer - End-effector hardware for robotic manipulation
• Research labs - Customer Environment - Shadow Dexterous Hand is used in robotics research laboratories.