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MANUS

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Hardware vendorRobotics company
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Dutch maker of hand motion-capture gloves for animation, VR/XR, research, and teleoperation / training-data collection for robotics and AI.

Founded2014Netherlands
HQEindhovenNetherlands
Total funding€2000B1 · 2019
01 · About

MANUS

Founded 2014 · Eindhoven, Netherlands

MANUS (a brand of MANUS Technology Group; original entity Manus Machinae B.V.) is a Dutch company headquartered in Eindhoven, founded in July 2014 by Bob Vlemmix, Stephan van den Brink and Tim van Veenendaal, with Maarten Witteveen joining shortly after as CTO. The company started with VR gaming gloves and later moved into professional hand motion-capture. Its gloves track hand articulation with millimeter precision across 25 degrees of freedom. Products have included its first development kit (2016), the Prime series, Quantum Metagloves with EMF technology (2022), Metagloves Pro (2024) and Metagloves Pro Haptic (2025), plus the MANUS Core software. In 2021 the company opened offices in Germany and the US. MANUS solutions are used by robotics companies, AI research labs, XR developers and motion-capture studios to collect and process human-interaction data, including for robot teleoperation and training.

  • Bob Vlemmix

    Co-founder

  • Stephan van den Brink

    Co-founder

    Co-founder; served as CEO in the company's early period (2015).

  • Tim van Veenendaal

    Co-founder

  • Maarten Witteveen

    Co-founder & CTO

    Chief Technology Officer (CTO); joined the company in October 2014.

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

3 areas · 2 technologies · 3 industries
What they do3Areas
  • AI hardware
  • Embodied AI
  • Humanoid robots
How they do it2Technologies
  • Embodied AI
  • Robotics
Who for3Industries
  • Robotics
  • Media & entertainment
  • Research & science
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Eindhoven · 2 offices · 3 regions
GlobalEuropeNorth America
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 2014 · Series A
2014founded
51–200 employees (per LinkedIn)employees
€2Mtotal funding
Series Alatest round
growthdevelopment stage
Privatenot listed
activestatus
€2M
total funding
1 · 2019
Series ANovember 2019Eindhoven Venture Capital Fund II
€2 million
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 6 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagegrowth
  • Listed onNoprivate
  • Organization typeHardware vendor+ Robotics company