3EALITY Sessions | Teaching Robots Human Skills

The Challenge of Data Collection in the Wild: A keynote & demo by Stephan van den Brink from MANUS. Join the next edition of 3EALITY Sessions, our event series exploring real-world applications of spatial computing and physical AI. Hear directly from industry experts and connect with the 3EALITY community at High Tech Campus Eindhoven. Humans perform complex physical tasks effortlessly, yet teaching robots to reproduce these skills remains one of the biggest challenges in physical AI. As robots move toward increasingly complex real-world applications, the need for high-quality, diverse human demonstration data is growing. But how do we capture human skills outside controlled laboratory environments, and what information do robots actually need to learn from us? This keynote explores today’s approaches to robot training data collection, the technical challenges of capturing precise movements and physical interactions in everyday environments, and what future sensing systems will need to achieve. Drawing on MANUS’s experience in high-precision hand tracking, we’ll examine the next engineering challenges in translating human dexterity into data that robots can learn from. Date: December 10th, 2026 Location: 3EALITY, High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTC 37) Program: 15:30 – 16:00 Walk-in 16:00 – 16:15 Welcome & Introduction by Philipp Werle (HTCE & 3EALITY) 16:15 – 17:15 Keynote by Stephan van den Brink (MANUS) 17:15 – 17:30 Open Mic: Ideas & Questions 17:30 – 18:30 Drinks & Networking About the speaker Stephan van den Brink is the Co-Founder and CEO of MANUS, a technology company headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, specializing in high-precision hand tracking and human interaction data. Since co-founding MANUS in 2014, Stephan has led its evolution into a globally recognized leader in data gloves for robotics and Physical AI. Today, MANUS technology is trusted by over 2,000 research institutions and technology companies worldwide, supports more than 50 robotic hand models, and is the official data glove of NVIDIA Isaac Teleop. With a passion for innovation and human-machine interaction, Stephan is driving MANUS’ mission to bridge human dexterity and robotic intelligence, enabling robots to learn complex human skills through high-fidelity data. About 3EALITY 3EALITY is the High Tech Campus Eindhoven innovation hub for Spatial Computing and Physical AI. We facilitate an ecosystem of companies and individuals by offering workspace, knowledge-sharing events, and matching supply with demand. Interested in joining our community? Find out more: www.in3eality.com.