Turning real human movement into training data for humanoid robots
Industrial physical AI company Diden Robotics and human motion AI company MOVIN signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on July 15, 2026 to build and use datasets for humanoid robot learning.
Through the agreement, the two companies plan to work together to improve how well robots learn motion. Raising humanoid performance requires precise data that shows how real people move through complex environments, keep their balance, and interact with the objects around them.
Much of today's motion data was originally collected for content and animation. Because of differences in robot joint structure, range of motion, and physical limits, that data is often hard to use for robots. Diden Robotics and MOVIN will instead build new training data, combining MOVIN's LiDAR-based motion capture and multimodal data collection with Diden Robotics' humanoid development expertise.
What the partnership covers
- Capturing a wide range of real-world human movement as high-precision 3D motion data and multimodal sensor data.
- Building a data pipeline that converts this data into a form suited to humanoid robot learning.
- MOVIN collecting LiDAR and camera data from multiple viewpoints and delivering it retargeted to Diden Robotics' robot structure.
- Diden Robotics using the dataset to improve the learning efficiency and precision of core behavior models for walking, balance, whole-body control, and interaction with objects and environments.
Starting with this MOU, the two companies plan to expand their collaboration into joint research and commercialization.
"To raise humanoid performance, we need high-quality multimodal data that captures both human movement and the surrounding space," said Junha Kim, CEO of Diden Robotics. "Working with MOVIN, we will secure data that fits our robot hardware and strengthen a learning framework we can apply directly to real robot development."
"Precisely capturing human movement and converting it to a robot's body structure is a key foundation for humanoid robot learning," said Byeori Choi, CEO of MOVIN. "Through this partnership, we hope MOVIN's motion data technology will expand beyond the content industry to become core data infrastructure for robotics."
Source: Money Today (in Korean)
