The Melbourne
Bionics Company

RICHTER The human scale.

Teach robots what elite looks like.

The best movers on the planet are athletes. Richter turns how they run, turn, jump, land and fall into a scale — and scores humanoid robots against it.

Book a benchmark Score a robot

See it yourself

Pick a movement. Tune the robot. Watch the score.

The athlete is the reference. The robot is yours to adjust.

Start with running. Then slide the robot toward the athlete.

Elite reference Humanoid under test

Richter score

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Tune the robot

Range of motion 70% How far the joints travel · elite band 92% and up

Reaction 160 ms behind How late it responds · elite band under 40 ms

Smoothness 45 How fluid the motion is · elite band 85 and up

Pick a movement to begin.

Both figures are modelled for this demonstration. The athlete is not a recording, and the robot is not any particular machine. The scale itself — what gets measured, and what counts as the elite band — is what Richter delivers, built from real athletes. See where it stands.

The gap

Humanoids walk. They don’t yet move.

Right shape, wrong rhythm.

A robot can hold the pose and still miss the timing. The difference is obvious to anyone watching, and hard to put a number on.

Every lab has its own ruler.

Teams measure their own robot against their own last version. Nobody is measuring against the same human.

The hard moments go untested.

Turning at speed. Landing off a step. Going down and getting back up. These are where robots fail, and where the least reference data exists.

What’s missing isn’t a better robot. It’s a shared reference for what good looks like.

Why athletes

The reference is people who move for a living.

Not a volunteer in a motion-capture suit. A professional, mid-game, doing the movement the way it is actually done.

Motion and muscle

The whole movement, not just the shape of it.

Our Ares sleeve reads how the leg moves and which muscles are doing the work, at the same time. A robot can be scored on both: where its limbs went, and whether the effort landed where an athlete’s does.

In the game

Captured where it happens.

Athletes wear Ares through training and matches. The reference comes from real turns, real landings and real falls under real pressure — thousands of repetitions a lab could never stage.

An AFL player running with the ball, wearing Ares sleeves on both legs during a match — Every session an athlete plays in Ares adds to the reference. Richter is what that reference becomes for robotics.

The library

Six movements every humanoid has to get right.

Pick one to see what it tests and why athletes are the right reference for it.

Locomotion

Running

Stride after stride at speed, with the whole body in rhythm. It is the movement humanoids demonstrate most and the one that gives away the least about a machine, because a steady jog hides a lot.

What it tests: Stride timing, arm and leg coordination, how much the body bounces, and whether effort is spread across the leg the way an athlete spreads it.
Why athletes: A professional runs at speeds and for durations most people never reach, with an economy that took years to learn. That is the ceiling worth measuring against.

The service

Send us the robot’s movement. Get back its score.

A benchmark is a report against the scale, not a visit to a lab.

Score

A Richter score per movement.

One number out of ten for each movement in the library, placed against the elite band. Simple enough to put on a slide.

Diagnosis

Where the gap is.

Which joint, which moment, and which of range, timing or smoothness is holding the score down. That is where the engineering goes next.

Progress

Release to release.

Run the same benchmark on the next build and the one after it. The scale does not move, so the progress is real.

A number your engineers can chase, and your investors can read.

Consent and privacy

Every athlete opts in. No athlete is in the data.

Richter is built from movement, not from people. The reference carries how a body moved, and nothing about whose body it was.

Player

Individual consent, every time.

Each athlete agrees to their movement joining the reference, separately from wearing Ares, and can withdraw.

Team

The club signs off too.

Nothing leaves a team’s programme without the team’s agreement. Clubs see what is shared and what is not.

Anonymised

Movement only.

No names, no clubs, no dates, no footage. A robot is scored against a band of elite movement, never against a person.

Where it stands

Working

Reading the athlete

The Ares sleeve that captures the reference stays within 3% of a lab-grade research sensor on the same leg. That is the instrument Richter is built on.

In build

The reference library

Collection begins through Ares pilots with key Australian sports organisations, movement by movement, with player and team consent in place before a single session is kept.

First benchmarks

A small number of humanoid developers scored against the first movements in the library, and the scale refined with them. We are choosing those partners now.

Teach robots what elite looks like.

Pick a movement. Tune the robot. Watch the score.

Humanoids walk. They don’t yet move.

Right shape, wrong rhythm.

Every lab has its own ruler.

The hard moments go untested.

The reference is people who move for a living.

The whole movement, not just the shape of it.

Captured where it happens.

Six movements every humanoid has to get right.

Running

Send us the robot’s movement. Get back its score.

A Richter score per movement.

Where the gap is.

Release to release.

Every athlete opts in. No athlete is in the data.

Individual consent, every time.

The club signs off too.

Movement only.

Reading the athlete

The reference library

First benchmarks

Benchmark against the best movers on earth.