umi /universal motion to meaning
The interface between intelligence and the physical world is movement. umi intends to understand it.
01 — Principle
Motion is information.
Human movement carries intent, language, emotion, context and action. umi is building intelligence that understands it.
- 01Motion
- 02Intelligence
- 03Meaning
02 — The shift
The human interface is moving.
For decades, machines understood clicks, commands and text. The physical world speaks differently.
- Gesturesignal
- Expressionsignal
- Movementsignal
- Contextsignal
umi is building the intelligence between them.
03 — The asset
Universal Motion Intelligence
A machine intelligence layer for interpreting motion across people, environments and machines.
- 01Visual signalWhat the sensors see
- 02MotionSpatial and temporal movement
- 03Temporal contextSequence over time
- 04ExpressionFace, posture, micro-movement
- 05IntentInferred purpose
- 06MeaningMachine-readable output
Physical signal resolves into meaning.
04 — The moat
Intelligence compounds.
umi develops the underlying models, training systems, datasets, intellectual property and motion-to-meaning intelligence generated through its products and research.
Every solved interaction can improve the intelligence beneath the products built on it — through permissioned, validated and appropriately governed data.
05 — The model
Built to be measured.
umi's intelligence is intended to improve through measurable benchmark performance rather than marketing claims. Progress is measured. Models compete against defined tasks and real-world outcomes.
- Accuracy
- Latency
- Generalization
- Context
- Motion understanding
Infrastructure
umi uses decentralized machine intelligence networks to train, evaluate and improve specialized models through competitive performance.
06 — Products
The first expression.
A umi product
/signReal-time communication between Deaf and hearing people. /sign applies Universal Motion Intelligence to one of the most demanding motion-to-meaning problems: language expressed through the body.
Sign language is the beginning. Not the boundary.
Six technologies matured independently. Only now can they run as one engine — live, in under a second.
- 01Vision — 3D capture of hands, body and face. No gloves, no sensors.
- 02Motion — skeletal and gesture modeling, frame by frame.
- 03Expression — micro and macro expression read as language.
- 04Language — context and intent resolved, then translated.
- 05Voice — natural, real-time multilingual speech.
- 06Inference — GPU-fast, live over encrypted streams.
The family
Not products bolted on. Capabilities invoked from one intelligence layer.
- umi /signLanguage through motion.Live
- umi /faceFacial understanding.Next
- umi /intentBody language and human intent.Next
- umi /flowCrowd movement.Planned
- umi /moveEmbodied AI.Planned
- umi /motionHuman activity recognition.Planned
- umi /trustBehavioral credibility.Planned
- umi /sdkDeveloper platform.Planned
- umi /apiInference platform.Planned
07 — The platform
Machines that understand us.
Our SDK, API and underlying IP integrate directly into machines — giving them a deeper understanding of human expression. Motion, face, and gesture become signals a machine can read.
- 01Human motionHow the body moves through space and time.
- 02Facial expressionThe face as a continuous channel of meaning.
- 03Micro-expressionThe involuntary signals beneath the surface.
- 04Sign languageThe full grammar of /sign, expressed through the body.
- 05Crowd & body languageIndividual and collective behavior read in context.
And in reverse
Robots learn to move like us.
Motion understood becomes motion expressed. The same intelligence that reads human expression teaches embodied systems to move, gesture and respond with human nuance.
Every one of these is a technology umi establishes.
08 — The horizon
When machines understand motion.
- Language
- Action
- Intent
- Prediction
- Behavior
/sign. Motion, expression and context resolved into real-time linguistic meaning — beginning with the accessibility communication economy.
The same motion-to-meaning stack extends from signing into human demonstrations that teach robots action, manipulation and intent.
The same skeletal and temporal intelligence moves from understanding what humans say to understanding what humans do.
Temporal motion modeling expands into predicting falls, injuries, collisions and unsafe movement — what happens next.
Face, gaze, posture and body — the signals /sign already requires — become inputs for broader contextual human understanding.
These markets overlap and reuse one foundation, so we never sum them into a single figure. Each changes the data, the benchmark and the output — while the core capability stays the same.
One capability underneath all five — human motion into machine-understandable meaning.
08 — Company
umi inc.
Universal Motion Intelligence Corporation develops motion intelligence, foundational models, intellectual property and products that translate physical signals into meaning.
/sign is its first commercial platform.
umi inc.
The corporation
Universal Motion Intelligence
The intelligence layer
Models + Data + IP
The foundational asset
Products / APIs / Systems
The applications
/sign + future applications
The expressions