MANUS Metagloves Pro profile: a commercial glove for robot hands

Contents

1. What the glove measures
2. Published evidence
3. Strengths and limits
4. Pricing
5. Questions to ask MANUS
6. Sources

Type	Commercial finger-tracking glove
Pricing	Not published
Website	manus-meta.com

A team with a dexterous robot hand needs a measurement of every finger joint, shift after shift. MANUS Metagloves Pro take that measurement with sensors in the glove⁠1MANUS Metagloves ProMANUS.

Best for: Teams driving a multi-fingered robot hand that want a supported commercial glove with a ROS 2 integration.

Not the right fit for: Parallel grippers, where a glove captures far more than the robot can use, or buyers who need a public price.

What the glove measures

The maker’s page describes electromagnetic-field tracking with millimetre-level precision and 25 degrees of freedom, a full anatomical hand model, with swappable batteries. It lists ROS 2 among the integrations and an SDK for custom pipelines. The page offers a quote request; no price is shown. Haptic feedback is a separate model, Metagloves Pro Haptic⁠1MANUS Metagloves ProMANUS. The earlier Quantum Metagloves are marked legacy and end-of-life; their page lists a 120 Hz sample rate and signal latency of 7.5 milliseconds or less⁠2Quantum Metagloves (legacy)MANUS.

Published evidence

Shadow Robot offers MANUS Metagloves Pro Haptic as one of three glove options in its Teleoperation System, alongside its own glove and a HaptX glove, to drive a Dexterous Hand with 20 degrees of freedom⁠3Shadow Teleoperation SystemShadow Robot. The MANUS page carries customer testimonials about teleoperating robot hands⁠1MANUS Metagloves ProMANUS. All figures are maker-reported.

Strengths and limits

Strengths

• Measures finger joints directly rather than estimating them from a camera.
• A commercial product with an SDK, swappable batteries and listed ROS 2 support.
• Chosen by Shadow Robot as a glove option for its 20-degree-of-freedom Dexterous Hand system.

Limits

• No public price: the page offers a quote request.
• A glove tracks the hand, not the arm. Wrist position needs a separate tracker, headset or exoskeleton.
• Haptic feedback is a separate model, Metagloves Pro Haptic.

Choose another option if: You want an open design with force feedback for under $600 in parts (DOGlove), or your robot has a simple gripper (a leader arm).

Pricing

Not published. The product page offers a quote request.

Questions to ask MANUS

• What is the price per pair, and is the software licensed separately?
• What sample rate and latency does the Pro model deliver over ROS 2?
• Which robot hands have a maintained mapping?
• What sizes are available for a shift of operators with different hands?

See how the MANUS glove compares with the other options in the rig comparison table.

Sources

1. MANUS Metagloves Pro. MANUS. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
2. Quantum Metagloves (legacy). MANUS. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.
3. Shadow Teleoperation System. Shadow Robot. Accessed 11 Nov 2026.

Further reading

• Buyer's guide · Updated quarterlyTeleoperation hardware in 2027: controllers, kits and rigs comparedNine ways to put a robot under a person's control, from a $230 pair of printed arms to a $24,000 bimanual station, compared on what they cost and what they record, followed by the line most hardware budgets leave out, the operators.
• Guide · Gloves and exoskeletonsTeleoperation gloves and exoskeletons: what they capture and costRobot hands with fingers need controllers with fingers. Commercial gloves are sold by quote, open designs cost a few hundred dollars to build, and the two groups suit different teams.
• ProfileDOGlove profile: an open-source glove with force feedbackA research glove that lets the operator feel what the robot hand touches, for under $600 in parts and a few hours of assembly.