= Shadow Robot = {{attachment:credit_european_space_agency.jpg}} {{attachment:shadow_hand.jpg}} ''~-IMAGE CREDIT: The European Space Agency (ESA)-~'' We are Britain’s longest-running robot company (winners of the Queen's Awards 2019 under Innovation) and are experts at grasping and manipulation for robotic hands and systems. Shadow has worked with companies and researchers all over the world, looking at new ways to apply robotics technologies to solve real-world problems. We develop and sell the [[https://www.shadowrobot.com/dexterous-hand-series/|Shadow Dexterous Hand|target="_blank"]], recently used to advance research into AI (having won the AIconics Award for best innovation in AI hardware 2019), and the Modular Grasper, an essential tool for supporting industry 4.0. We are also a pioneer in the fast-developing fields of teleoperation and telepresence with our [[https://www.shadowrobot.com/teleoperation/|Tactile Telerobot|target="_blank"]], where the Shadow Hand is combined with sensors and controlled via a haptic glove for touch feedback. {{attachment:ken_goldberg.jpg}} We use ROS as our open source robotic operating system to support research platforms. To have a look at the ROS software we distribute for our hardware and also for different control means that we're using, please refer to our [[https://github.com/shadow-robot|shadow_robot stack|target="_blank"]], as well as our [[http://wiki.ros.org/shadow_robot_ethercat|etherCAT driver|target="_blank"]]. Visit our website for more on [[https://www.shadowrobot.com/robotics-research/|Shadow and robotics research|target="_blank"]]. <>