DudeImMacGyver to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

New Moonwalkers designed to get workers around a warehouse faster

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New Moonwalkers designed to get workers around a warehouse faster

DudeImMacGyver to micromobility - Ebikes, scooters, longboards: Whatever floats your goat, this is micromobility@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Shift Robotics aimed to get folks walking faster back in 2022, with a Kickstarter project for strap-on powered wheels called Moonwalkers. Now the Carnegie Mellon spinoff is launching a business-specific variant called the Moonwalkers X.

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Gonna repress my initial cynicism and legitimately ask what this solves that the scooters already present in many warehouses don’t?
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  This ups the silly quotient exponentially! Just imagine all the workers moonwalking all over the place.
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    A far better answer than I was expecting
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      And they’re powered by strap-ons!

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