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Shadow Robot launches Smart Grasping System at Innovate 2016

Sep 15, 2016 · Product Launch · Shadow Robot · End Effectors

Key points

  • 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 launch marked a push beyond academic dexterous-hand research toward industrial and service-robot manipulation use cases.

Company context

Shadow Robot develops dexterous robotic hands, tactile sensing and teleoperation systems for manipulation research, embodied-AI labs and advanced robot-control work.

Context

Company
Shadow Robot
Segment
End Effectors
Event type
Product Launch
Geography
London, England · United Kingdom

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