Facts

• Company: Shadow Robot
• Product type: Hand
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Manipulation
• Website: https://shadowrobot.com/dex-ee_series/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

DEX-EE Hand is Shadow Robot electric dexterous hand for AI and robotics research. It is built for manipulation experiments, teleoperation and bimanual learning, with variants that better match human hand geometry for copying human motion.

Overview

DEX-EE Hand is Shadow Robot electric dexterous hand for AI and robotics research. It is built for manipulation experiments, teleoperation and bimanual learning, with variants that better match human hand geometry for copying human motion.

Market context

Three-finger dexterous robot hand developed with Google DeepMind for demanding real-world machine-learning and manipulation experiments.

• Target environment: Research labs, robotics development environments and advanced manipulation research facilities.
• Workflow context: Dexterous grasping, precision manipulation and tactile interaction on advanced robotic platforms.
• Customer context: Robotics researchers, manipulation labs and AI research teams working on dexterous manipulation.
• Deployment model: Commercial product sold to research and advanced development customers.
• Commercial maturity: Commercially available product with strong positioning in the dexterous manipulation research market.
• Adoption constraints: End-effector level product requiring integration into a complete robotic system. Priced for the research market rather than broad commercial use.
• Market position: Extends Shadow Robot's specialist hand lineage into a current dexterous manipulation product for research and advanced control work.
• Adjacent products: Ability Hand, Shadow Hand series, dexterous robotic hands

Audience

Researchers

Workflow

Dexterous grasping, precision manipulation and tactile interaction on advanced robotic platforms.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Research labs, robotics development environments and advanced manipulation research facilities.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Researchers
• Workflow: Dexterous grasping, precision manipulation and tactile interaction on advanced robotic platforms.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Research labs, robotics development environments and advanced manipulation research facilities.

Specifications

• Weight Kg: 4.1 kg
• Dof: 12 DoF
• Tactile Sensing: High-speed sensor networks with position, force, inertial and tactile data; optical fingertip sensors with hundreds of taxels each
• Manipulation: Built for long-running reinforcement-learning, imitation-learning and dexterous manipulation experiments
• Software Stack: ROS integrated for research and development use
• Variant Summary: DEX-EE is the symmetric three-finger model; DEX-EE Chiral moves the third finger into a human-like offset and is offered in left, right and bimanual-pair configurations.

Tags

• Peer Group: Robot Hand, Dexterous robotic hand, Robot Hand Components
• Workflow: End Effector Manipulation, Dexterous grasping
• Capability: Tactile Dexterity, Robotic Grasping, Tactile feedback
• Stack Layer: Robot end-effector, Manipulation stack layer
• Commercial Stage: Benchmark reference product, Commercial product

Timeline / Research

• 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.

Comparable Systems

• Ability Hand - PSYONIC - Hand
• OmniHand Pro 2025 - AGILINK - Hand
• ROH-AP002 - OYMotion - Hand
• RH56E2 - Inspire Robots - End Effector
• OmniHand 2025 - AGILINK - Hand
• OrcaHand Touch - ORCA Dexterity - Hand
• DG-5F-S - Tesollo - Robotic Hand
• Realhand O6 - RealHand - Dexterous Hand