Europe Gesture Recognition and Touchless Sensing 2035: Shaping the Future of Human–Machine Interaction
Gesture recognition and touchless sensing technologies are gaining significant momentum across Europe as industries adopt more intuitive, hygienic, and intelligent methods for humans to interact with machines and digital systems. These technologies enable devices to interpret human gestures, movements, and proximity without physical contact, utilizing sensors such as cameras, infrared sensors, radar, ultrasonic sensors, capacitive sensors, and AI-powered software algorithms. Driven by digital transformation, automation, and post-pandemic hygiene awareness, Europe has become a key market for touchless and gesture-based solutions. Technology Overview Gesture recognition and touchless sensing systems rely on a combination of hardware sensors and advanced software. Vision-based systems use 2D and 3D cameras, time-of-flight (ToF) sensors, and structured light to detect hand and body movements. Non-vision-based approaches use radar, infrared, ultrasonic, and capacitive sensing to dete...