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Research & Development

AlphaEdge R&D

Human Movement × Robotics

Why we research

AlphaEdge operates FitSync, its own personal training studio — an actual setting where people move. How a body holds a posture, where it breaks down, and how it recovers is something we observe every day. Those observations become hypotheses, and a hypothesis means nothing until it is tested.

Observe in the field. Form a hypothesis. Validate it as technology.

Humanoid motion control

How does a person hold a posture, respond to a disturbance, and move into the next action? At AlphaEdge we are conducting research and development in physics simulation, with a view to how such insights into human movement might one day inform the motion control of humanoid robots.

Having reproduced published standard control methods accurately and made them verifiable, we are now in the experimental stage of our own control research. Unless the basis for comparison is sound, no later result means anything.

Note: as this work is ongoing, we do not publish the specific control methods, evaluation metrics, or performance data.

Observing human movement

At FitSync we work with everyone from complete beginners to competitive athletes. How a posture is held, how tension is released, how balance is regained after it is lost — these differ in ways that are hard to put into words. AlphaEdge records those observations as questions that could be measured.

Research activities

What comes next

On a foundation that can validate correctly, we will test the hypotheses born from our own observation. Results will be shared as they reach a stage where they can be published.

Contact

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