Cartwheel
Cartwheel is an AI research lab and product company that builds foundation models for human and object motion and provides tools for media and the physical world.
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- May 29 2025
About Cartwheel
Cartwheel is an AI research lab and product company that builds foundation models for human and object motion, and the tools that put them to work across media and the physical world. The company emphasizes human movement as a foundation for physical intelligence and notes its focus on turning video into learnable data and generating new motion.
Cartwheel develops kinetic world models and datasets to enable physical AI training at scale.
The main products include Performance Capture for turning video into production-ready motion, Performance Generation for text-to-motion, and a suite of pipeline tools like Cartographer and MCP for integration. The offerings are designed to capture, generate, edit, and retarget motion, with outputs in multiple formats and compatibility with common 3D software and AI agents.
Cartwheel lists plans and platforms including web-based apps, an API, and plugins for existing workflows. It mentions multiple software integrations (Cinema 4D, Maya, Unity, Unreal, Blender, etc.), and notes plans and credits-based usage for teams and enterprise workflows.
Use cases
- Capture motion from video for production, games, or films
Key features
- Frontier models for perception, capture and generation of motion, physics and kinematic spatiotemporal data
- Performance Capture to turn video into production-ready motion
- Performance Generation to create human performances from text prompts
- Performance Editor for generative edits with poses and paths
- Pipeline tools like Cartographer for universal motion retargeting
- MCP to capture motion and generate animation via agents like ChatGPT or Claude
- Plugins to integrate Cartwheel into existing work environments
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