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“Moonwalker is not skates but a shoe,” Shift Robotics founder and CEO Xunji Zhang said in a release published on the company’s official website last week. In fact it is the fastest shoe in the world. You don’t skate wearing a moonwalk,…read more
An American robotic engineering company has invented such shoes, which can increase the walking speed of the wearer by 250 percent. (Photo: Shift Robotics Website)
Washington: An American robotic engineering company has invented shoes which they claim can increase the walking speed of the wearer by 250 percent. moonwalkers The battery-powered shoes, called Moonwalkers Shoes, look like skates, but are powered by artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms. The company says that one can walk normally wearing this shoe and there is no need for hand control. This shoe has been invented by a company named Shift Robotics, which is a spin-off (subsidiary company of the university) of Carnegie Mellon University of the United States. They have a strap-on design that allows these moonwalkers to be used with any pair of shoes.
“Moonwalker is not skates but a shoe,” Shift Robotics founder and CEO Xunji Zhang said in a release published on the company’s official website last week. In fact it is the fastest shoe in the world. You don’t skate while wearing the Moonwalk, you walk. You don’t have to learn how to use it, this shoe learns from you. According to Gizmodo, Moonwalkers have 8 polyurethane wheels, just like skates. However, these wheels are very small and are not in a single line. This shoe is powered by a 300-watt electric motor. As the user walks faster or slower, it monitors the wearer’s gait using artificial intelligence sensors and the algorithm automatically matches the motor power, synchronizing the speed, increasing and decreasing it .
Shift Robotics claims its Moonwalker shoes increase the wearer’s walking speed by 250 percent, Gizmodo reports. This is based on the analysis that the average walking speed of people is 2.5–4 miles per hour (4–6.4 km per hour). Moonwalkers also have a special provision for use on stairs, which locks the wheels fitted to the shoes and prevents them from rolling freely. The company says that the braking distance of these shoes on dry road is about 2 feet. According to the New York Post, Moonwalkers are available for sale in the market under the Kickstarter campaign. Their price has been kept at $ 1,399 (Rs 1,15,332) and deliveries are expected to start from March 2023.
October 29, 2022, 10:14 IST