About us
With over 35 years of expertise, McRoberts is a global leader in human mobility assessment using wearable sensors. We harness our understanding of human movement to develop simple, effective solutions that empower healthcare providers, clinical researchers, and academics to evaluate mobility with precision and ease.
McRoberts was founded in 1988 by Rob van Lummel, whose passion for combining movement science with innovative technology led to the creation of groundbreaking tools for mobility assessment. Through close collaboration with scientific partners, McRoberts has revolutionized ambulatory monitoring, setting new benchmarks in the field of mobility analysis.
Testimonials
This is what our customers and partners say about us ...
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At the RbMF and at the Unit of Digital Geriatrics at the University of Heidelberg we are using Axivity sensors for several observational and intervention studies. Together with these sensors we use McRoberts's data platform and analytics pipeline for…
Read full testimonial Prof. dr. Clemens Becker |
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"McRoberts is a very important partner of the UMCM regarding the MyoMobile study, an intervention study on the effects of physical activity on myocardial and vascular function in patients with heart failure.", says Philipp Wild, Professor of Clinical…
Read full testimonial Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. Philipp Wild, M.Sc. |
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McRoberts is an important partner for many of our translational research projects”, says Kim Delbaere, Principal Research Scientist – Falls, Balance and Injury Research Centre – at Neuroscience Research Australia. “Our research focus is on…
Read full testimonial Kim Delbaere, PhD |
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Our group has been collecting data from community-dwelling older adults using devices made by McRoberts for more than 5 years”, says Aron Buchman, Professor of Neurological Sciences, Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center in Chicago. “It has been a…
Read full testimonial Aron Buchman, MD |
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McRoberts is a very important partner for The Hague University of Applied Sciences”, says Willem Looije, Program Manager (The Netherlands). “Since the beginning in 1992, students of our program Human Kinetic Technology are learning and working…
Read full testimonial Willem Looije |
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For several years McRoberts and I are collaborating in neuromuscular and aging research,” says Andrea Maier, Professorial Fellow Medicine and Aged Care, University of Melbourne, Australia & Hoogleraar veroudering, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.…
Read full testimonial Andrea Maier, PhD, MD |
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As the Scientific Coordinator of Moving Beyond, I would like to express my gratitude to Dr. Rob van Lummel and the McRoberts company, for their obviously extensive engagement in the network,” says Walter Maetzler, Department for Neurodegenerative…
Read full testimonial Walter Maetzler, PhD, MD |
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I read your paper in PLOS One, based on measurements made with the DynaPort MoveMonitor. Very nice work and a substantial advance in the field…
Read full testimonial Richard Casaburi, PhD, MD |
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Since 2012 we have collected over 1000 weeks of gait and activity of daily living data using McRoberts devices with excellent (99%) compliance,” says Professor Stephen Lord, Senior Principal Research Fellow – Falls, Balance and Injury Research…
Read full testimonial Stephen Lord, PhD |
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I began working with McRoberts in 2010, finally finding first rate engineers who also were provoked because objective measures of physical activity were not common in clinical research studies for regulatory approval of new therapies,” says Stephen…
Read full testimonial Stephen Raymond, PhD |
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We love to work with McRoberts for their outstanding products and services in the area of assessment of physical functioning both in health as in patients with pulmonary diseases,” says Dr. Alex van ‘t Hul, Managing Director COPDnet, Radboudumc…
Read full testimonial Alex van ‘t Hul, PhD |
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In the field of activity assessment, McRoberts was known to us from the IMI PROactive project as having a genuine scientific interest in activity assessment and openness to get involved in development of new measures and principles,” says Alan…
Read full testimonial Alan Hamilton, PhD |
2025 SMARTSLEEP
In collaboration with TNO and UZ Leuven we started the SMARTSLEEP Project to advance our sleep monitoring solution.
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Martijn Niessen, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Jordi Evers, MSc
Chief Marketing Officer
Erik Ainsworth, MSc
Senior Software Engineer
Sietze de Haan, MSc
Software Engineer
Ali Tabasi, PhD
Software Engineer
Rens van Leeuwen, MSc
Allround Support Engineer