Expanding Access to the Future of Dexterous Robotics

For nearly 30 years, Shadow Robot has helped define the field 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 organisations face when adopting advanced dexterous manipulation technology.

Accessibility isn’t just about price. It’s about making it easier for teams to get the right hardware, at the right time, in the way that best supports their research or commercial goals.

To achieve this, we’re continuing to expand the ways organisations can access our technology, including:

• More competitive pricing across our robotic hand platforms.

• Flexible access models, including rental models, to reduce upfront commitment and accelerate experimentation.

• Shorter lead times through improvements in manufacturing and operational efficiency.

• Packaged solutions that simplify deployment and reduce integration complexity.

• Promotional offers throughout the year that provide additional opportunities for organisations to invest in advanced robotic manipulation.

Together, these initiatives enable more researchers, engineers, start-ups and industrial organisations to access the hardware needed to solve complex manipulation challenges.

Greater accessibility doesn’t mean compromise. Every Shadow Hand and DEX-EE platform continues to deliver the same engineering, precision, and performance trusted by robotics leaders worldwide.

This expanded accessibility applies across both of our flagship dexterous manipulation platforms:

• 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 Dexterous Manipulation Matters Now

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

Intelligence without dexterity cannot transform the physical world. 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 we’ve expanded how organisations can access our technology, our commitment to engineering excellence remains unchanged:

• 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.

Our engineering 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 barriers to adopting our robotic hands, through more accessible pricing, flexible access models, faster lead times, packaged solutions, and promotional offers, 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: Helping organisations in advanced manufacturing, automation, pharmaceuticals, logistics, and hazardous-environment operators to transition human-like dexterity from research environments into real-world industrial deployment.

• 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 have the tools to experiment, collaborate, and turn ideas into real-world systems. By expanding access to advanced dexterous manipulation, we’re helping more organisations contribute to the next generation of robotics innovation.

This marks the next chapter for Shadow Robot, expanding access to world-leading dexterous manipulation technology and helping accelerate the future of Physical AI.

More access. More research. More innovation.