MANUS Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-18 - Demonstration - Visual Dexterity study combines YAM Pro arms and Sharpa Wave hands - MANUS gloves and Quest tracking teleoperated two YAM Pro arms fitted with Sharpa Wave hands. Three RealSense D405 cameras captured the real-world manipulation workspace. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-07-30 - Demonstration - Beko Europe participated in a RoboCom/CIM/ARTES 4.0 humanoid evaluation demonstration in which… - A human operator used MANUS gloves and a motion-capture suit in the humanoid evaluation. The demonstration was conducted through the RoboCom, CIM and ARTES 4.0 programme. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-07-22 - Capability - BMW Plant Landshut describes MANUS-enabled humanoid training workflow - MANUS gloves capture finger-level operator motion while cameras and motion-capture suits record posture and spatial context. The programme converts demonstrations into robot policies and involves Athenyx Robotics and Landshut University of Applied Sciences. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-07-03 - Partnership - MANUS and Lightwheel partner on Physical AI data infrastructure - MANUS contributes high-precision 25-DoF-per-hand capture for dexterous human demonstrations. Lightwheel turns the source signal into robot-learning-ready data through annotation, simulation and synthetic scaling. The companies frame the workflow around… - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-06-18 - Demonstration - T-Rex team records 100-hour tactile dexterity dataset - The setup used two Dexmate Vega-1 arms, Sharpa Wave hands, multi-view cameras, MANUS gloves and VIVE trackers. Researchers recorded 100 hours of data across 12 manipulation tasks. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-06-15 - Demonstration - Ego-Pi demonstrates dexterous humanoid research configuration - The R1 Pro used either Tesollo or Inspire end effectors during the experiments. ZED Mini vision, MANUS gloves and Quest tracking captured the demonstration inputs. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-06-15 - Demonstration - Demonstration: Xynova demonstrated Flex 2 teleoperation with MANUS Metagloves Pro Haptic - Xynova demonstrated Flex 2 teleoperation with MANUS Metagloves Pro Haptic. This was a named Flex 2 teleoperation demonstration using the haptic glove configuration, not evidence of a commercial supply or standard product bundle. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-05-07 - Research Publication - MANUS publishes HRDexDB use case for paired human-robot dexterous grasp data - The use case focused on paired human and robotic hand grasp data. MANUS gloves supplied high-fidelity hand kinematics for the data-collection workflow. The work connected MANUS gloves to physical-AI and dexterous-manipulation research. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-04-29 - Capability - MANUS details N1 Robotics humanoid manipulation data workflow using MANUS gloves - The workflow used MANUS gloves as the operator input layer for teleoperation and hand-motion capture. MANUS highlighted millimeter-level hand tracking across 25 degrees of freedom. The use case focused on scaling humanoid manipulation data collection. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-04-01 - Demonstration - Demonstration: Sarcomere Dynamics demonstrated real-time ARTUS Lite hand control using MANUS gloves - MANUS gloves provided real-time control input for the ARTUS Lite hand. The evidence is a named control demonstration rather than a standard product bundle. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-03-09 - Demonstration - A MANUS demonstration teleoperated a simulated 22-DoF Sharpa Wave inside NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.3… - A MANUS demonstration teleoperated a simulated 22-DoF Sharpa Wave inside NVIDIA Isaac Lab 2.3 and fed demonstrations into Isaac Lab Mimic. The relationship and configuration scope are limited to this named, dated programme. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-03-02 - Demonstration - BiDex compares bimanual teleoperation interfaces - MANUS gloves provided a common hand-tracking layer across the experiments. The study compared BiDex, Vision Pro and SteamVR teleoperation configurations. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-02-11 - Research Publication - MANUS publishes OSMO tactile-sensing workflow for contact-rich robot learning - The use case described OSMO tactile gloves paired with MANUS Quantum Metagloves for human-to-robot skill transfer. The workflow used tactile feedback and hand kinematics to train policies for a Franka robot arm and dexterous hand. MANUS cited a 72 percent… - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-01-23 - Capability - Artly AI describes MANUS-enabled robot skill training - Expert baristas wear MANUS data gloves so Artly can record fine hand trajectories for imitation learning. Artly said learned drink-making skills can be distributed across its revenue-generating robot operations in multiple cities. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-01-08 - Demonstration - GR-Dexter records bimanual trajectories with ByteDexter V2 hands - Two Franka Research 3 arms carried ByteDexter V2 hands and were driven with MANUS Metagloves and Quest tracking. The collection comprised about 20 hours of robot trajectories. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2026-01-06 - Capability - OpenGraph Labs describes multimodal manipulation-data workflow - The setup pairs MANUS gloves with iPhone egocentric video for hand motion and visual context. Custom software synchronizes the streams for routine multimodal manipulation-data capture. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2025-12-16 - Demonstration - UC San Diego study uses teleoperated initial grasps for articulated tools - Operators used MANUS Metagloves Pro to provide teleoperated starting grasps. The intervention was used when the dexterous hand could not establish a stable grasp autonomously. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2025-11-19 - Demonstration - MANUS internally tested a ROS 2 teleoperation mapping between Metagloves Pro and the PSYONIC… - MANUS internally tested a ROS 2 teleoperation mapping between Metagloves Pro and the PSYONIC Ability Hand. This was an internal ROS 2 mapping test between the named devices, not evidence of a commercial integration, purchase or standard product configuration. - source: manus-meta.com
• 2025-02-27 - Partnership - Alt-Bionics and MANUS launch Surge teleoperation package - Alt-Bionics formally announced its robotic-hands partnership with MANUS for commercial teleoperation packages. Metagloves Pro provided precise real-time control of Surge's dexterous movements. The turnkey package targeted humanoid, robotic-arm, and… - source: linkedin.com
• 2024-12-23 - Commercial Order - Alt-Bionics reports several Surge sales from Humanoids Summit - Several Surge sales were secured during the inaugural Humanoids Summit. Live MANUS-powered demonstrations attracted attendees at the Computer History Museum event. The company disclosed neither customer identities nor quantities beyond several sales. - source: linkedin.com
• 2021-06-23 - Product Launch - MANUS launches Prime X Series data gloves - The Prime X Series includes Marker Mocap and Haptic VR glove models. The gloves support optical motion tracking workflows and engines including Unreal and Unity through MANUS integrations. MANUS positioned the launch around accurate hand and finger data for… - source: auganix.org