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Research Papers

Our Dexterous Hand is involved in numerous research projects around the world. And our talented engineers are continuously developing our technology, producing their own impactful research along the way. Explore some of the groundbreaking papers featuring Shadow Robot tech.

How, where and why are researchers using the Shadow Dexterous Hand?

Refers to how the Shadow Hand can be used in your research, 2021


Brice Denou

Haptic Feedback in a Teleoperated Box & Blocks Task

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand Lite, 2020

Irene A. Kuling, Kaj Gijsbertse (&), Bouke N. Krom, Kees J. van Teeffelen, and Jan B. F. van Erp

A Mobile Robot Hand-Arm Teleoperation System by Vision and IMU

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2020

Shuang Li, Jiaxi Jiang, Philipp Ruppel, Hongzhuo Liang, Xiaojian Ma, Norman Hendrich, Fuchun Sun, Jianwei Zhang

Solving Challenging Dexterous Manipulation Tasks with Trajectory Optimisation and Reinforcement Learning - Warwick Uni

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2020

Henry Charlesworth, Giovanni Montana

Reliable Robotic Handovers through Tactile Sensing (preprint version)

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2020





Augusto Gómez Eguíluz, I. Rañó, Sonya Coleman, T.M. Mcginnity

Multilevel Motion Planning - A Fiber Bundle Formulation

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2020






Andreas Orthey and Sohaib Akbar and Marc Toussaint

TactileGCN - A Graph Convolutional Network for Predicting Grasp Stability with Tactile Sensors

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2019



A. Garcia-Garcia, B.S. Zapata-Impata, S. Orts-Escolano, P. Gil, J. Garcia-Rodriguez

Robotic Additive Manufacturing system for nuclear industry applications

Refers to Shadow’s Modular Grasper, 2019



Richard French, Hector Marin-Reyes, Gabriel Kapellmann-Zafra, Samantha Abrego-Hernandez

SOLVING RUBIK’S CUBE WITH A ROBOT HAND  

Shadow Robot Staff Members as Co-Author, 2019


Ilge Akkaya, Marcin Andrychowicz, Maciek Chociej, Mateusz Litwin, Bob McGrew, Arthur Petron , Alex Paino, Matthias Plappert, Glenn Powell, Raphael Ribas, Jonas Schneider, Nikolas Tezak, Jerry Tworek, Peter Welinder, Lilian Weng, Qiming Yuan, Wojciech Zaremba, Lei Zhang

A Sense of Touch for the Shadow Modular Grasper

Shadow Robot Staff Member as Co-Author, 2019



Nicholas Pestell, Luke Cramphorn, Fotios Papadopoulos and Nathan F. Lepora

Sensory Integration of Apparent Motion Speed and Vibration Magnitude

Rich Walker, Shadow Robot’s Managing Director as Co-Author, 2018


Matjaz Ogrinc, Ildar Farkhatdinov, Rich Walker, and Etienne Burdet

Kerr Measurement of Capillary CVPR

Refers to the Shadow Dexterous Hand, 2018




Emmett Kerr, Sonya Coleman, T.M. McGinnity, Andrea Shepherd

Finger Contact Sensing and the Application in Dexterous Hand Manipulation

Shadow Robot Staff Member as Co-Author, 2015


Hongbin Liu, Kien Cuong Nguyen, Véronique Perdereau, Joao Bimbo, Junghwan Back, Matthew Godden, Lakmal D. Seneviratne, Kaspar Althoefer

A Case Study of ROS Software Re-usability for Dexterous In-Hand Manipulation

Shadow Robot Staff Members as Co-Author, 2014


Guillaume Walck, Ugo Cupic, Toni Oliver Duran, Veronique Perderau

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