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> Military-grade, multiple redundancy electronics hardware, running our in-house OS with jet propulsion level stability add the final layer of peace of mind.

That is a lot of buzz-words, and sort of hinting at JPL but failing.

At the end of the video, the exploded view shows a crazy gear train, synchronizing those 10 wheels per shoe sounds tough.

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I watched a review from a shoe guy about these. He was very impressed with the wheel design - basically the inset raised wheels allow them to mimic a larger radius wheel and handle potholes and such smoothly.

The designer did talk about how failures would be very bad (and it sounded like he had experienced plenty of fails with the earlier designs to be speaking from experience) which might be why they are pushing the terminology there.

> He was very impressed with the wheel design

I can make a very good looking and well designed cake out of human feces, I'd still go for the 100 years old tested and proven brownie recipe that looks like a brick though. No matter how well something is designed, if it's stupid it's stupid

“Walk like a pro in 10 steps” had me laughing.

I guess I've been walking amateur this entire time.

Real walkers don't do it for the money.

They also get their parts from the same place Tesla does!

So, China? Or did you mean the batteries are sourced from a Gigafactory?

Nah, they also used the same libraries from GitHub, it counts.

I was being snarky. They named dropped JPL and Tesla in their video.

Doesn't "military-grade" imply the lowest-possible cost to get the job done? I.e., the exact opposite of the marketing PR it is servicing?

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