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Shadow Robot

London, England, United Kingdom · Private · www.shadowrobot.com

Shadow Robot supplies advanced dexterous robotic hands that serve as manipulation components for humanoid and other general-purpose robotic platforms.

Humanoids · watchlist · score 69Robotics · prospect · score 34

Positioning

Shadow Robot is a UK maker of the Shadow Hand (20 DoF, 120 sensors), the research-standard anthropomorphic hand for two decades, plus the DEX-EE and DEX-EE CHIRAL (built with Google DeepMind, launched at ICRA June 2026) and teleoperation systems for nuclear, pharma, and research. It sits at the teleoperation-data intersection where humanoid training data gets collected, so its strategic relevance exceeds its commercial scale. Revenue is undisclosed (research-market scale).

Latest signals

  • Shadow Robot and Fraunhofer IFF will investigate dexterous robotics.The Engineer
  • Shadow Robot expanded access to its dexterous robotic hands through rental and other flexible models.Shadow Robot
  • Shadow Robot Company, DexRobot, and Psyonic are developing multi-degree-of-freedom robotic hands.EE Times
  • Dr Shan Luo received an EPSRC Open Fellowship to advance tactile robotics.Shadow Robot
  • Shadow Robot sponsored the 17th RITA conference and scheduled a DEX-EE exhibition demonstration.Shadow Robot

10 signals name Shadow Robot. Members see all of them, filtered by topic, source and date.

Facts, with sources

  • Shadow Robot and Fraunhofer IFF started a six-month project testing dexterous hands with tactile sensing on cobot arms for hard-to-automate assembly tasks.Partnership · shadowrobot.com
  • ARIA reported Touchlab's TACTO e-skin integrated into Shadow's Dexterous Hand under its Robot Dexterity programme, in which Shadow director Rich Walker is a Creator.Partnership · aria.org.uk
  • MANUS published a use case of Shadow teleoperating the Shadow Hand and DEX-EE Chiral with MANUS gloves at ICRA 2026.Partnership · manus-meta.com
  • At ICRA 2026 in Vienna Shadow showed the DEX-EE CHIRAL three-finger hand (12 DoF, 4.1 kg) and a Shadow Hand fitted with Touchlab TACTO tactile sensors.Product launch · shadowrobot.com

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Scores, Humanoids (of 10)

Deployment6
Production4
Commercials4
Progress8
Technology10
Positioning8
Firepower4
Leverage8

Traction: deployment, production, commercials, progress. Capability: technology, positioning, firepower, leverage.

Questions this page answers

What does Shadow Robot do?

Shadow Robot supplies advanced dexterous robotic hands that serve as manipulation components for humanoid and other general-purpose robotic platforms. Shadow Robot is a UK maker of the Shadow Hand (20 DoF, 120 sensors), the research-standard anthropomorphic hand for two decades, plus the DEX-EE and DEX-EE CHIRAL (built with Google DeepMind, launched at ICRA June 2026) and teleoperation systems for nuclear, pharma, and research. It sits at the teleoperation-data intersection where humanoid training data gets collected, so its strategic relevance

Where does Shadow Robot rank in humanoids?

Shadow Robot is on the Humanoids watchlist list of Frontier Tech Intelligence with a score of 69 out of 100, below the Top 100.

Where is Shadow Robot based and when was it founded?

Shadow Robot is based in London, England, United Kingdom. Stage: Private.

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