Expanding Access to the Future of Dexterous Robotics

For nearly 30 years, Shadow Robot has been at the forefront of dexterous manipulation, developing robotic hands trusted by leading universities, research institutions, and companies worldwide.

From our industry-defining Shadow Hand to the DEX-EE series, our mission has always been to enhance human potential by designing world-leading robot hands that enrich lives and improve work environments. Our vision is clear: to enable robots to achieve human-level dexterity and touch.

As robotics continues to evolve from pioneering research into real-world applications, we believe the technologies that drive innovation should be accessible to more of the people building the future.

Today, we’re taking another step towards that vision.

Making Dexterous Manipulation More Accessible

We are making our robotic hand platforms more accessible than ever before by reducing the barriers for organisations looking to adopt advanced dexterous manipulation technology.

Through improvements in manufacturing processes, operational efficiency, and product delivery, we are enabling more researchers, engineers, start-ups, and robotics companies to access the hardware needed to solve complex manipulation challenges.

This includes both:

Shadow Hand: our flagship research platform trusted by leading robotics organisations worldwide for advanced dexterity, tactile sensing, and manipulation research.

DEX-EE: our latest dexterous platform designed to accelerate the development of scalable robotic manipulation and support the future of Physical AI.

Why Now?

As Physical AI moves beyond simulation and into real-world environments, access to high-quality physical hardware is becoming increasingly important. AI models can learn, reason, and plan, but robots still need the ability to physically interact with the world around them.

Dexterous manipulation is a critical step in bridging the gap between intelligence and action.

By making advanced robotic hand technology more accessible, we aim to accelerate innovation across the global robotics ecosystem

What hasn’t changed?

While access has expanded, our commitment to engineering excellence remains absolute:

• World-Class Hardware: Shadow Hand and DEX-EE continue to deliver the exact same industry-defining precision, high-fidelity tactile feedback, and robust physical build quality.

• Expert Support & Integration: Our engineering expertise, technical support, and guidance remain unchanged.

• Continuous Software Deployment: Our platforms continue to be supported by robust software frameworks, including ROS interfaces and ongoing improvements designed to support research and development.

The technology hasn’t changed.
Our standards haven’t changed.
Our commitment to advancing robotic dexterity hasn’t changed.

What has changed is the opportunity for more organisations to access these capabilities.

Empowering the Next Wave of Robotics

By reducing the upfront cost of adopting our robotic hands, we are enabling more organisations to explore, develop, and deploy dexterous manipulation. This opens new opportunities across the robotics landscape:

• Academic  Research: Helping universities and research institutions equip robotics laboratories with advanced manipulation platforms, giving more students and researchers hands-on experience.

• AI & Robotics Development: Providing teams with physical hardware to collect real-world interaction data and develop reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and robotics foundation models.

• Robotics Start-ups: Giving emerging companies access to advanced dexterity platforms to prototype, validate, and accelerate new robotic solutions.

• Industrial Deployment: Empowering advanced manufacturing, automation, pharmaceuticals. logistics, and hazardous-environment operators to transition human-like dexterity from speculative R&D directly onto the factory floor and operational lines.

• Scaling Robotics Research: Empowering existing customers to frictionlessly scale their deployments from a single proof-of-concept to multi-hand testing fleets.

Robotics advances when more brilliant minds can experiment, collaborate, and transform ideas into physical systems.

This marks the next chapter for Shadow Robot: expanding access to dexterous manipulation and helping build the future of physical intelligence.

More access. More research. More innovation.