FlexR muscle-expansion sensing

Objective strength data, straight from the muscle.

ARIS is a wearable band and companion app that measures muscle expansion directly — so the reps, load and effort your clients log outside your room are real numbers you can act on.

Scan to install on your phone
Download for Android
Direct APK · ~230 MB · Android 9+ (arm64) — includes the full offline exercise-video library
Play Store listing coming soon
iOS coming soon.
ARIS FlexR band
SET 3 OF 4 · BARBELL SQUAT
1 / 10 reps
Muscle expansion · live
VELOCITY
0.62 m/s
RPE
7.5
A product of Microtube Technologies
Sensor engineering company behind the FlexR platform.
Proprietary FlexR sensing
Our own sensor technology, developed in-house — direct muscle measurement, not motion inference.
An NUS spin-out, since 2018
Microtube spun out of the National University of Singapore; ARIS is built with clinicians and coaches.
The FlexR difference

Most trackers guess your reps. ARIS measures them at the source.

Three ways to count a rep. Only one of them reads the muscle itself.

METHOD 01

Camera-based apps

Watch the body through a phone camera and infer the rep from silhouette movement.

Phone must be set up and aimed every session
Sensitive to lighting and available space
Filming clients raises privacy questions
METHOD 02

IMU / motion sensors

Detect acceleration and orientation, then infer that a rep probably happened.

Indirect: motion is a proxy for effort
Placement-sensitive, drifts as it shifts
Often needs repositioning mid-set
ARIS
METHOD 03

ARIS FlexR band

Measures muscle expansion directly — the physical change in the muscle as it contracts.

+A clean signal straight from the body
+No camera to set up, nothing to aim
+Stays put — no repositioning mid-set

FlexR is our proprietary sensing technology — a genuinely new approach the rest of the market isn't using.

The soft strain sensor stretches to three times its length without losing signal.
<1%
Deformation is enough to register — small, controlled movement still reads clearly.
2018
FlexR has been developed since the NUS spin-out, and now runs in rehab, robotics and clinical sensing work.

Built for your practice

Whoever you are, the same thing is true: the work happens without you in the room, and you need to see it.

Rehab & clinics

See whether the home programme was actually done — and how hard it felt — before the next appointment.

Coaching & gyms

Programme once, then coach from real load and effort data instead of self-reported sets.

Distributors & resellers

A hardware product with a differentiator you can demonstrate in 30 seconds on the floor.

Enterprise health

Consistent, comparable strength measures across sites, teams and cohorts.

The coach console
ariscoach.microtube.tech · Clients
My clients
3 of 3 slots
CLIENTADHERENCELAST
AM
Alex Morgan
Post-Op Knee · Wk 3
11 / 12
Today
SH
Sofia Hernandez
Strength Base · Wk 2
5 / 8
2 days
DT
Daniel Tan
Shoulder Rehab · Wk 1
1 / 4
9 days
AM
Alex Morgan
Post-Op Knee · Week 3 of 4
SESSIONS
11 / 12
AVG RPE
7.1
STREAK
3 wks
RECENT SESSIONS
Session 11 · Lower
Today · 42 min · 16 sets
RPE 7.5
Session 10 · Upper
Sat · 38 min · 14 sets
RPE 6.5
Session 9 · Lower
Thu · 45 min · 16 sets
RPE 8.0
Today · 42 min
Session 11 · Lower
SETS
16
REPS
148
VOLUME
4.2 t
RPE 7.5 · HARD BUT CONTROLLED
SET DETAIL
Barbell squat 10109PR
Leg press 121211

Assign a plan, then watch adherence and effort come back per client — the drop-off is visible before the next appointment, not after it. Console accounts are set up by invitation: request access and we'll open one for your practice.

Why muscle

Muscle is the tissue that decides how the next thirty years go.

Strength is not cosmetic. It underwrites metabolic health, balance, and the ability to keep living independently — and it is one of the few things that responds directly to what you programme for someone.

01
Sarcopenia starts earlier than people think
Muscle mass is commonly cited as declining a few percent per decade from around 30, accelerating after 60. Progressive resistance training is the most reliable countermeasure we have.
02
Balance matters more than volume
Push against pull, upper against lower — every group needs to be trained consistently, not just the ones a client enjoys. Any muscle left out is a potential weakness: the trained side compensates, and that is where pain and re-injury start. It stays invisible until something is counting what each group actually did.
03
Strength tracks healthspan
Functional strength is among the better markers of how well someone will move, recover and stay independent later in life. Keeping it is a long game — which is why adherence is the whole battle.

ARIS attributes every set to a muscle group, so the balance stops being a guess.

Male anatomy, anterior view
Front
Female anatomy, posterior view
Back
Shading follows the last 14 days — the deeper the fill, the more work that group took.
LAST 14 DAYS
Muscle group balance
Quadriceps18 sets
Chest14 sets
Lats & upper back9 sets
Hamstrings4 sets
Glutes3 sets
Front-loaded fortnight. Posterior work is where this client's programme needs correcting.
What it measures

Everything the session leaves behind.

Direct rep tracking

Reps counted from muscle expansion, not from motion or video.

Objective performance data

Sets, reps, tempo, power and perceived effort per session.

Plans beyond the session

Multi-week programmes that keep running when the client leaves.

Progress & adherence

Who trained, how often, and whether the trend is going the right way.

Secure by default

Client data is encrypted, access-controlled and never sold.

Under your guidance

The app assists your programme — it never replaces your judgement.

Hey, Sam
This week
M
T
W
T
F
S
S
Current routine
Post-Op Knee · Wk 3
12 sessions
Today · 42 min
Session complete
SETS
16
REPS
148
KCAL
386
RPE 7.5 · HARD BUT CONTROLLED
New personal record
Barbell squat · 10 reps at depth
SET DETAIL
Barbell squat
10 10 9 PR
Muscle map
Last 14 days
Front
Back
Quadriceps18
Chest14
Hamstrings4

How it works

1
You set the plan

Build a multi-week programme from your own routines and assign it to the client in the console.

2
They train with the band

The FlexR band pairs to the app and reads every set — at your facility or at home.

3
Results come back to you

Completion, effort and progress land in your dashboard before the next appointment.

Install in 30 seconds

Android evaluation build, installed directly from us. No account or store login required to look around.

The "unknown source" security prompt is normal for direct installs — Android shows it for any app not installed from the Play Store.

01
Scan the QR or tap Download

The APK downloads straight to your phone.

02
Allow install from this source

Tap "Settings" on the prompt, flick the toggle, come back.

03
Open ARIS and explore

Demo mode runs without a band, so you can see the whole flow.

Talk to us about your rollout.

Clinic pilots, multi-site deployments, distribution — tell us the shape of it and we'll come back within two working days.

Or email info@microtube.tech — Microtube Technologies, 15 Kent Ridge Crescent #07-03, Singapore 119276