The Shadow Robot Company Limited

Shadow Robot has been exploring teleoperation and robotics to address the crisis now or better prepare for any catastrophes in the future. Vaccine and drug manufacturing is a key part in the healthcare supply chain and currently the pharmaceutical industry across the world is extremely stretched to meet this need. While the big pharma companies like Pfize...

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Production Scale-up: Shadow's Modular Grasper

"An increasing global population and a difficulty in attracting sufficient numbers of workers from with the current EU is a direct threat to affordable and secure supply for the UK. In order to address this challenge, the agricultural and food manufacturing sectors are increasingly using technology to address the shortfall in labour availability. The supp...

"Recent studies and demonstration of new cutting techniques have identified that deployment of robots with lasers for remote cutting operations could offer significant benefit and go some way to achieve the desired outcome of safer, faster and cheaper nuclear decommissioning. However, there still remains significant uncertainty over the capability, integr...

As part of its “Roadmap to Useful Robotics”, Shadow identified the need for a disruptive autonomous grasping solution. The goal is to be able to grasp any object with a simple high-level command. For the solution to be robust, it relies heavily on a tight integration between the hand, or fingertip sensors, and the grasp control algorithms. In this project...

In robotics, being able to plan robustly and efficiently in a complex environment is still a challenge, yet so important to make it easy to teach and program robots to be able to operate in dynamic workspaces. We will tackle this problem by benchmarking state-of-the-art planning algorithms on a list of relevant problems and use this to test the feasibilit...

Additive manufacturing (AM) can refer to the process of joining materials to make objects from digital 3D model or design data, which is used to build-up a component - usually layer-upon-layer - and includes a range of techniques such as additive or freeform fabrication. Innovative technology is required in order for AM to become a highly disruptive force...

We aim to create a novel semi-autonomous teleoperation experience using modern virtual reality tools. We will build on Shadow Robot’s autonomous dexterous grasping capabilities, Cambrian’s teleoperation control platform and OC Robotics flexible snake arm robots, to take advantage of significant RAS, teleoperation research and equipment at UCL to build a n...

Smart vision for grasping robots (like the Shadow Smart Grasping System) will unlock significant new markets in research and industry. The iSee project is a feasibility investigation to find out if linking state of the art robotics hardware with cutting-edge research in vision and modern “deep learning” methods can transform the way robots can see - and t...

There is a strong requirement for information by improved mapping of the internals of buildings, structures and storage vessels of hazardous materials. Currently this process is conducted by manual visual inspections, which is both costly and potentially hazardous to the engineer, or through camera systems, which relies on user interpretation and interven...

The Automato Robot project aims to address the seasonal labour constraints in the UK/European tomato industry and their increasing cost through the development of a cost-effective robotic system that performs on-crop quality and ripeness inspection and then automated harvesting. The project brings together state of the art knowledge of innovative robotic ...