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Shadow Robot Company

Shadow Robot is a London company that has built dexterous robot hands for nearly 30 years, with about 200 in use mainly at universities and tech firms. It developed the DEX-EE hand in a multi-year project with Google DeepMind.

Category
Robot hands
Country
United Kingdom
Founded
1987
Reported customers
3Named by the press or the companies
Robots
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Listed
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What it makes

From the company's own description and the sources below.

Makes
Highly dexterous robot hands, DEX-EE tactile hands and teleoperation gloves.
Parts
Dexterous hand
Tier
Parts and modules
Founded
1987
Products
Shadow Dexterous Hand, DEX-EE, DEX-EE Chiral, Shadow Glove

Reported customers

Supply deals and partnerships as reported by the companies or the press.

  • Google DeepMindDEX-EEmulti-year hand development project · 2024
    Shadow's site carries a DeepMind testimonial on their multi-year project, and 36Kr reports DEX-EE was built with DeepMind for reinforcement-learning research. 36Kr
  • Google DeepMindDEX-EEco-developed dexterous hand · 2024-05
    Shadow designed the DEX-EE hand with Google DeepMind's robotics team, which uses it as a research platform for real-world learning. The Robot Report
  • OpenAIShadow Dexterous Handsupplied dexterous hand · 2019
    The Robot Report notes OpenAI used the earlier Shadow Hand in its dexterous manipulation research with Shadow Robot. The Robot Report

Sources

Where each fact on this page comes from.

Shadow Robot Company Shadow Robot 36Kr Dexterous hand market report (Jun 2025) BBC (via Capital FM) Get a grip: Robotics firms struggle to develop hands Shadow Robot News and Press The Robot Report Shadow Robot DEX-EE hand takes manipulation to next level

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