Shadow Robot Company

Shadow Robot Company makes the Shadow Dexterous Hand, a tendon-driven hand with 20 motors, 24 degrees of freedom and over 100 sensors that has become the benchmark for research-grade robotic manipulation. The company collaborated with Google DeepMind on the DEX-EE end-effector, purpose-built for AI manipulation training.

Founded in London, Shadow Robot has spent decades engineering human-like dexterity into robotic hands, resulting in the Shadow Dexterous Hand — widely regarded as the premier tool for manipulation research worldwide. Its tendon-driven architecture, combining 20 motors with 24 degrees of freedom, closely mimics the kinematics of the human hand and is paired with an extensive sensor suite of over 100 sensors for rich tactile and positional feedback. The company's collaboration with Google DeepMind produced the DEX-EE, a compact end-effector optimized specifically for reinforcement-learning and AI dexterous manipulation pipelines. Shadow Robot's hardware is used in leading academic institutions, research labs and advanced robotics programs globally, making it a foundational supplier in the humanoid components ecosystem.

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