Richard's interest in robotics initially began as a hobby 23 years ago. A frequent speaker at Robotics conferences, Richard has designed and built many award-winning robots including best robot in the 1996 Glasgow Robot Olympics. He has built a robotic drawing machine, which is able to create abstract paintings. He was a Director of IGR (Inter Galactic Robots) a Robotic start-up which produced a high quality educational Turtle with LOGO graphics. In 1984 Richard independently reinvented the Air Muscle and has been perfecting the design since (which was awarded Millenium Product status) as well as numerous novel sensors, valves etc. Many other patent applications are either pending or have been allowed to lapse. Richard is a successful entrepreneur and in addition to Shadow he has founded a thriving photo-library business. Languages spoken: French (fluent): German, Greek, Mandarin (enough to get around). 

Michael Pollitt joined the Shadow Robot Company as CEO in late 2007 from Mightyfine.net, where he remains a Director. Since joining Shadow, Michael has successfully restructured business management and operational processes and brought Shadow into the European Space Program.

Prior to this role, Michael was Operations Director at Serverside Group Limited, managing facilities in London, New York, Hong Kong and Sydney. A primary inventor on Serverside’s Patent family, he was responsible for Serverside’s global operations, project delivery, partner and supplier relationships, and relationships with key customers across the global retail banking sector.

Michael has also held senior business development roles with Hewlett-Packard, Compaq, and Deutche Bank. Michael has a Batchelor of Business Systems from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, has dual British and Australian citizenship, and is also a successful musician and songwriter. 

Rich has worked twelve years with Shadow and is now its Technical Director. His particular expertise is in robotics research and development. He has a degree in Maths (BA, Cambridge, 1992) and Computer Science (Dip.C.S. Cambridge 1993). He has extensive computing and robotics experience on a variety of operating systems, programming languages, and robot designs. He helped develop the Shadow Robot Company to commercialise some of Shadow research. Since joining, he has worked on software (architecture, implementation and test), electronics design and development, hardware design and test and the management of most of Shadow's development projects. His current work includes research into control systems for air muscles, software and systems architecture for robotic systems, intellectual property management, technical overview and training of staff members in Linux and related systems. 

Hugo has worked for Shadow since 1992. His particular expertise is in integrating mechanic and electronic systems, and software. He designed and built the World's first "shrugging" robot arm, first exhibited in Glasgow 1996. Another of his own robot designs led him to the semi-finals of Robot Wars in 1998. He has 17 years experience writing software, including graphics systems and physical modeling. Hugo has a degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from York University.  

Mathew has worked for Shadow for five years. His particular expertise is in mechanical, electronic and software design, and on a human interface device to give an inexperienced user a simple method of control. He has recently finished constructing a pioneering and world beating robot hand design. Matthew has a degree in Robotic and Electronic Engineering from Salford University. 

Nick has worked with Shadow for over seven years. He has worked in a range of sectors, including Balistic Missile Early Warning Station (BMEWS) RAF Fylingdales; installing and maintaining US rearward communications system (speech and data); training in RF and gamma radiation monitoring techniques. At the Ministry Of Aviation Bickley, he worked on the design of automatic test systems for: Radiation calibration, Sonorbuoys, Polaris warhead test equipment, Laser length calibration, Crystal aging test rig etc. At LEB telecoms, he worked on the design of PCM line switching equipment, network planning and remote meter reading systems. Field trial of Mainsborne Telemetry System, setting up low Earth orbiting satellite tracking station. Presently at Shadow Robot Company where he initially designed robot hardware electronics but is now Company Secretary and a Director of the company. 

Armando graduated from Monterrey Institute of Technology (ITESM), Mexico, in Physics Engineering in 2002 and obtained a Masters in Complex Adaptive Systems from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, in 2003. He did some research in Architectural Design and Crowd Behaviour before joining Shadow Robot Company in late 2003. Since then he's worked mainly on the Control, Design and Production for the Shadow Dextrous Hand. Some other side projects include Futurist Furniture, exploring the interaction between Technology and Art, and Evolutionary Programming. 

Steve has a lifelong passion for robotics and has been working at Shadow on and off in his spare time since 2002 filming video footage of the hand. He recently graduated with a 1st in Mechanical Engineering with Mechatronics form Newcastle University and received an IMechE award for best mechatronics student. He now works full-time at shadow, researching and developing a humanoid shoulder. 

Jake Goldsmith graduated from Brunel University in 2004 with a 1st class degree in Product Design (BSc). Having specialised in mechatronics within his degree, Shadow Robotics was the ideal choice after moving to London. Since working at Shadow Jake has worked mainly on the sensor control systems for the robotic hand, developing the software, circuitry and physical sensors. 

Meli builds the Shadow Air muscles. 

Mark is a founder member and has been involved with Shadow since meeting "Arnie (the Shadow Biped)" in 1986. Mark has worked part time for Shadow for many years as the companies webmaster and general IT odd job man. Mark works fulltime as an IT Manager at Hinwick Hall College (a Specialist College for the disabled).

A personal Robot means equality and freedom.

His favourite film is Blade Runner. He loves South Park and believes that one day the world will treat disabled people like the Children of South Park do.
His message to Trey Parker & Matt Stone: "for your works in Equality I thank you." :-) www.wizdom.org.uk 

Enthused by robots from about the age of four and built his first Meccano robot at ten. Trained in mechanical and electrical engineering at Associated Electrical Industries and Salford Electrical Instruments, studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering before reading Mathematics at Manchester University. Later obtained a Post Graduate Diploma in Computing at the (then) Polytechnic of North London (PNL). He joined the first computer club in the country at the PNL and started the Micromouse group. In the early eighties he designed two robots, Zeaker and Zero2, which were sold into education and to hobbyists; he was Consultant Editor for 'Your Spectrum' and 'Practical Robotics' both popular news-stand magazines and wrote numerous articles on robotics including sessions for 'The Open Tech' Foundation Courses. In recent years he has published several more papers on robotics. In the late eighties he designed and built with others from Shadow the experimental 'Shadow Biped Walker' and since then has been designing and building custom electro-mechanical special effects for theatres and museums, notably the Shadow Leg, Cycler a Presentation Robot used by WasteWatch, various animatronic figures, and the animatronic Camels for Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. 

Derek currently practices for Shadow and others in Intellectual Property matters, including applying for and prosecuting Patent and Registered Trade Mark Applications. For 26 years, a member of the Company Administration function of GEC-Marconi Avionic Systems Limited, at Rochester, Kent, managing their Patent and Licensing Operation. Prior to which he was employed in the Patent Departments of The National Cash Register Company Ltd, the Ford Motor Company Ltd at their Research and Development Headquarters, and the textile machine manufacturers Ernest Scragg and Co Ltd. Derek started work in the Patent profession with the firm of Chartered Patent Agents Raworth, Moss and Cook at their Offices, then located in Victoria Street, Westminster.