Apple has published a new study in its Machine Learning Research blog, called EMBridge: Enhancing Gesture Generalization from EMG Signals through Cross-Modal Representation Learning. This study will be presented at the ICLR 2026 Conference in April. In it, the researchers explain how they trained an AI model to recognize hand gestures, even when those specific hand gestures weren’t part of its original dataset. To achieve this, they developed EMBridge, “a cross-modal representation learning framework that bridges the modality gap between EMG and pose.” EMG, or Electromyography, measures the el