Xsens

A Dutch maker of inertial motion-capture suits and IMUs, whose MVN suit is widely used to record human motion.

Xsens was founded in Enschede, Netherlands, in 2000 by University of Twente graduates Casper Peeters and Per Slycke, building sensors and motion-capture systems around MEMS inertial measurement units — small chips that measure acceleration and angular velocity; its flagship products are the MTi-series IMU and the MVN inertial motion-capture suit. The company has changed hands several times: it came under mCube in 2017, its parent renamed itself Movella in 2021, Movella listed on Nasdaq in 2023 and was delisted in 2024, and according to Wikipedia it reverted to the Xsens brand name in 2026. Unlike optical motion capture, inertial motion capture needs no external cameras — a wearer can record full-body joint motion in any location — so it is commonly used to capture human motion that is then retargeted onto humanoid robots for teleoperation or training data.

ExampleAn operator wearing an MVN suit performs a motion, and every joint angle is retargeted onto a humanoid robot in real time for whole-body teleoperation.

Also called

Movella

Related

Inertial Motion Capture · Motion Capture · Inertial Measurement Unit · Motion Retargeting · Whole-Body Teleoperation · OptiTrack

Sources

Xsens - Wikipedia

As of

2026-09