I am a biomechanist. I help teams understand how bodies move, where motion breaks down, and what to change before the design is locked.
Elegant motion is measurable.
Elegant does not just mean beautiful. It means efficient, adaptive and durable.
A humanoid robot. A running shoe. A wearable. A racing dog.
Same questions: how does the body interact with its environment, and what happens over time?
Most teams measure performance. I also look at what the motion costs.
Robotics and Physical AI
What can this body actually execute?
Gait, contact, compliance, recovery and actuator-body interactions. Biomechanics applied to robots, without assuming biomimicry is always the answer.
Functional products
Does the product work with the body or against it?
Footwear, apparel and wearables. I review the assumptions made about motion, where they break in real use, and what should be tested before committing to tooling.
Animal motion and longevity
How does today's motion affect tomorrow's performance and soundness?
Gait, load and long-term adaptation in working and companion animals. For breeders, trainers and teams designing products for animals.
How I work
Measure the cost, not only the output.
Speed and force are easy to optimise in isolation. They can be expensive to optimise wrongly.
End with a decision.
What should change? What should be tested next? What should be left alone?
Observe before measuring.
Some teams over-instrument and under-observe.
Test real conditions.
Under load. Fatigued. On a bad surface. After repair. Lab performance is a hypothesis.
Why I obsess over elegant motion?
Early in life, I learned the cost of broken bodies. It left me with one problem I wanted to solve: how do you augment and protect a body?
That question led me to biomechanics, motion analysis and eventually robotics.
PhD in biomechanics.
Five years developing motion-analysis tools in a government research lab.
15 years in deep tech.
Building and commercialising complex technical systems.
30 years studying motion firsthand.
Training, running, biohacking and continuously testing how bodies adapt to load.
I have spent my career looking at the same fundamental problem from different angles:
How do we make moving bodies more capable without making them more fragile?
Motion Review
One product. One prototype. One motion problem.
I review the motion, the body, the interactions with its environment and the assumptions behind the design.
A first 20-minute call will help us frame a potential collaboration based on your stage of development and your targets.
Depending on the problem, the Motion Review can include:
video, gait or movement analysis
mechanics and load review
body-product interaction
failure and compensation patterns
existing test/data review
recommendations for the next experiment or design iteration
Priced per project after a short call.
Images: Figure AI, Satisfy Running