The Human-Agent Teaming and Horse-Human Partnerships conference was hosted by the University of Arizona – Department of Mathematics – and the Al Marah Equine Center, in the period 10-14 January 2026. This five-day conference bridges mathematics, biomechanics, AI and robotics, equine science, and classical dressage.

We thank our host for the invitation and our colleague Jeanne Parmentier for her insightful presentation during the Dynamical Systems Approach to Horse-Human Partnership and Horse Biomechanics technical lecture. The presentation called “Measuring the horse-human dynamics – an equine engineer’s perspective” answered the basic questions of why and what do we want to measure:

• understanding the general biomechanics and physiology of the horse,
• understanding the patterns in case of pain,
• understanding the horse-rider interaction during exercises, and the biomechanics of the horse during riding, racing, jumping, dressage,
• the modelling of the forces applied on the equine musculoskeletal system, and
• quantifying welfare, shaping the horse-human partnerships of tomorrow.

Subsequently, Jeanne presented the Equi-Pro® mobile gait analysis system, the research projects related to the equine field that Inertia was involved in, and how our company can support research groups to quantify some aspects of the horse-human relationships.