Shadow Robot Timeline

Events

• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 2023-08-01 - Research Publication - DMFC-GraspNet: Differentiable Multi-Fingered Robotic Grasp Generation in Cluttered Scenes - The paper proposes a dense multi-finger grasp-generation network and evaluates it with the Shadow Dexterous Hand in MuJoCo simulation. The evaluation models Shadow Dexterous Hand in simulation, with the platform supplied by Shadow Robot. - source: arxiv.org
• 2023-04-10 - Research Publication - PoseFusion: Robust Object-in-Hand Pose Estimation with SelectLSTM - The paper introduces a 6D object-in-hand pose dataset collected through teleoperation with a Shadow Dexterous Hand. The study’s named evaluation platform is Shadow Dexterous Hand from Shadow Robot. - source: arxiv.org
• 2022-10-11 - Research Publication - A Multi-Agent Approach for Adaptive Finger Cooperation in Learning-based In-Hand Manipulation - The paper evaluates multi-agent reinforcement learning for in-hand manipulation tasks on the Shadow Dexterous Hand. The study’s named evaluation platform is Shadow Dexterous Hand from Shadow Robot. - source: arxiv.org
• 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… - source: openai.com
• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 2018-09-17 - Research Publication - Vision-based Teleoperation of Shadow Dexterous Hand using End-to-End Deep Neural Network - TeachNet generates robot joint angles directly from human-hand depth images and uses a consistency loss to bridge anatomical and visual differences between human and robotic hands. Training uses 400,000 paired human and simulated robot depth images with… - source: arxiv.org
• 2018-08-01 - Research Publication - Learning Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation - The policies learn vision-based object reorientation entirely in simulation while randomizing physical properties such as friction and object appearance. The trained policies transfer to a physical Shadow Dexterous Hand without human demonstrations. Physical… - source: arxiv.org
• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 2018-02-26 - Research Publication - Multi-goal RL benchmark paper includes in-hand manipulation with Shadow Dexterous Hand - The report introduces OpenAI Gym continuous-control environments based on existing robotics hardware, including Fetch arm tasks and in-hand manipulation with a Shadow Dexterous Hand. The Shadow hand environment uses sparse binary rewards and a multi-goal… - source: doi.org
• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 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… - source: shadowrobot.com
• 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… - source: time.com