Shadow Robot Company
Shadow Dexterous Hand
A tendon-driven anthropomorphic hand with tactile fingertips, used in dexterity, teleoperation and learning research.
Specifications
- Degrees of freedom
- Up to 24
- Tactile sensing
- Fingertip tactile arrays
- Interfaces
- ROS drivers, EtherCAT
- Mounting
- Common research arm flanges
- Use
- Research and teleoperation
Where it performs
- Closest to human hand kinematics
- Rich tactile data for learning research
- Long track record in academia
What to check before buying
- Maintenance-intensive tendon system
- Research pricing, not production
- Requires skilled operators