Almost Daily,

I read about pedestrians being clipped by, or mown down by E-scooters on the pavement,

 

photographs Shift Robotics, and to make matters even worse, behold the Moonwalkers, they consist of a 300W brushless motor in each 4.2-lb (1.9-kg) shoe that powers eight polyurethane wheels, there is also an AI-powered gearbox that increases or decreases speed according to data regarding the wearer’s walk collected by a series of sensors,

designed by Shift Robotics, an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University, “Moonwalkers are not skates. They’re shoes. The world’s fastest shoes actually,” Xunjie Zang, founder and CEO of Shift Robotics said. “You don’t skate in them. You walk. You don’t have to learn how to use them, the shoes learn from you.”

 powered by a state-of-the-art brushless DC motor, this ingenious contraption is actually a platform that can be attached to a wide variety of footwear to significantly increase your walking speed up to a reported 7mph/11kph. For comparison, humans’ average walking speed ranges from 2.5 to 4 mph. Moonwalkers were recently unveiled as part of a Kickstarer campaign that has already reached almost double its crowdfunding goal of $90,000, the first batch is expected to ship in March of 2023, at a retail price of $1,399, so pedestrians on the pavements look out, you could be mown down by Moonwalkers!