"—oh, right, you did mention. Yeah, that's just one of the applications, the general thing is figuring out what sorts of things you have to do to mechanical things in the real world in order to have them move and shake and all that the way you want them to even if there's, like, wind or gravity or whatever."

"Is that the sort of thing that has to be an autonomous object or would it work as a - wearable that threw its weight here and there to compensate for jitter?"

"You know, I could do that."

"Really!?"

"Totally. I'm not sure how exactly, what it would look like but—it's kinda exactly the sort of thing this would lend itself for, maybe a jacket of some sort, hmm..."

"I'd need you to tell me more—what exactly goes wrong when you lose balance, what do you try and what are like the instincts your body has..."

"Hm, I'm not sure in what format the information would be most useful? I suppose I could find a well padded place to jog and you could take high-speed video?"

"Yeah that would actually be pretty informative. If I could stick some sensors to you to record what's going on with each relevant body part at each point in more detail, too..."

"Like motion capture actors?"

"Yeah exactly! Probably not as fancy as the ones movie producers have, those budgets... But I don't think we'd need that much firepower."

"Yeah, mine is purely a gross motor issue, I sometimes knock things off desks but my handwriting is great."

"We're totally fine then, the sensors I can get my hands on should be enough."

"Exciting!"

"You got a padded room handy? Could rent one at the university but if you'd have an easier time..."

"Oh, I would have just waited for a gap in martial arts classes at the gym and gone in then. Why do you have padded rooms at the university?"

"To play with stuff that absolutely isn't robots because it has remote controls but would break if it hit regular walls too many times."

Giggle.

"Gap in martial arts classes sounds like a good idea though."

"They don't book them that densely, I'm usually just in the pool but I know I've walked through there while there was nobody actively using it. I guess if you need a solid hour of video of me falling over that might be hard."

"Maybe not a solid hour but at least half an hour?"

"That should be doable. I'll check the schedule."

"Cool! And I'll get the equipment."

Smug smug smug.