HIMSS Demo – Robot Teaching AI Gesture Recognition

By | March 12, 2026
Touchless Gesture at HIMSS

Touchless interaction in healthcare

What if a robot could help train an AI to understand human gestures?🤖🦾

At HIMSS 2026 in Las Vegas, we are showing a small demo that illustrates how we train the gesture recognition system behind HoverTap™ MD.

A user performs a simple hand movement. The robotic arm then mimics that motion. But the robot itself is NOT the goal! The idea is to capture real human gestures and then let the robotic arm repeat thousands of variations of those movements in front of HoverTap. This allows our AI models to continuously train and improve how the system understands gestures from different users.

It’s a simple demonstration, but it represents an important step toward reliable touchless interaction in healthcare environments.

If you’re attending HIMSS this week, come see it in action.

Author: Craig Allen Keefner

40 years in the kiosk industry and in the healthcare sector in particular. EPIC Wecome for patient kiosk check-in being the primary EHR worked with and patient check-in kiosks were the big element.