In the last two months, i.e. February and March of 2012, concrete progress has been achieved for the DEXDEB team, the left hand Shadow hand has been delivered to KCL integrating to a FANUC robot arm at KCL, expect for Shadow itself, two of the team members attended the Workshop on HANDLE training at Benicassim (Spain) in February and the DEXDEB ROS workshop was held at King’s College London in March. A paper on the friction compensation and control strategy for the dexterous robotic hands has been accepted for publication by the Second ASME/IEEE International Conference Reconfigurable Mechanisms and Robots.