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Shadow Robot Company

United Kingdom · Hands & Grippers · private
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Summary

Long-running London robotics house behind the Shadow Dexterous Hand, a tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with 20 motors across 24 degrees of movement and 129 integrated sensors, widely used in academic and industrial manipulation research including recent work with Google DeepMind.

Notable

Shadow Dexterous Hand — 24 DoM, 129 sensors, 20 motors, 26 micro-controllers

Key facts

Headquarters
London
Founded
1987
Role
supplier
Category
Hands & Grippers
Sector
Hands & Grippers
Status
private
CEO
Rich Walker (Managing Director)
Founders
Richard Greenhill (founder)
Funding
Primarily UK/EU grants (Innovate UK, EU programmes); no consolidated VC total published