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MANUS

MANUS is a Dutch maker of finger-tracking data gloves that have become a common teleoperation and data-capture tool for humanoid hands. RobotEra uses them with XHAND1 and Apptronik uses them to train Apollo at Mercedes-Benz.

Category
Sensors and IMUs
Country
Netherlands
Founded
—Not published
Reported customers
3Named by the press or the companies
Robots
—Not published
Listed
—Not published

What it makes

From the company's own description and the sources below.

Makes
Finger-tracking data gloves used to teleoperate robot hands and collect humanoid training data.
Tier
Components
Products
Metagloves Pro, Metagloves Pro Haptic, MANUS ROS2 package

Reported customers

Supply deals and partnerships as reported by the companies or the press.

  • RobotEraXHAND1teleoperation gloves for dexterous hand · 2025-09
    MANUS describes RobotEra using its gloves and ROS2 package to teleoperate the 12-DoF XHAND1 hand. MANUS
  • ApolloApolloApptronikteleoperation data gloves · 2026-02
    MANUS says Apptronik chose its gloves to collect hand data for teleoperated imitation learning on Apollo at Mercedes-Benz in Berlin. MANUS
  • Lightwheelhand-capture integration and data-infrastructure partnership · 2026-07
    The joint announcement states that MANUS provides hand motion capture for Lightwheel's robot-data infrastructure and Human Data Capture Platform. Lightwheel / MANUS

Sources

Where each fact on this page comes from.

MANUS ROBOTERA: Advancing Dexterous Robotics with MANUS Gloves MANUS Mercedes-Benz Deploys Apptronik's Apollo at Factory Floor Using MANUS Gloves

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