日前，美国一家机器人初创企业推出了一款号称全世界最快的鞋子，据称最多能将步行速度提升250%。这款鞋子装有电动风火轮，穿着这种鞋可以像穿一般鞋子一样行走，并能依据穿着者步行数据加快或减慢速度。
A Pittsburgh-based robotics and engineering startup recently unveiled Moonwalkers, a pair of battery-powered shoes that it claims can boost walk speeds by up to 250%.
一家总部在美国匹兹堡的机器人与工程初创企业日前推出了一款名为月球漫步者的电池供电鞋，据称可以将步行速度提升250%之多。
At first glance, Moonwalkers look like a pair of futuristic roller-skates, but there is actually a lot more to them than that. Youre actually meant to walk with them the way you would regular shoes or sneakers, letting the motorized wheels put a spring in your step. 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. The sensation of walking with the worlds fastest shoes has been compared to that of walking on a moving walkway in an airport.
乍看之下，月球漫步者就像一双将来主义风格的旱冰鞋，但事实上鞋里大有乾坤。你穿着它可以像穿一般鞋子或跑鞋一样走路，让电动轮帮你脚下生风。这款设计巧妙的鞋的动力来源于最早进的无刷直流电动机，事实上就是一个可以附着于各种鞋类的平台，可以显著提高步行速度，据称可达每小时7英里（11千米）。相比之下，人类平均步行速度为每小时2.5到4英里（4到6千米）。穿着世界最快鞋行走的感觉与在机场移动走道上行走的感觉差不多。
Designed by Shift Robotics, an offshoot of Carnegie Mellon University, Moonwalkers consist of a 300W brushless motor in each 4.2-lb shoe that powers eight polyurethane wheels. There is also an 人工智能-powered gearbox that increases or decreases speed according to data regarding the wearers walk collected by a series of sensors1. The shoes are also able to detect downhill movement to prevent accidents.
月球漫步者由美国卡耐基梅隆大学下属的Shift Robotics公司设计，每双重量为1.9千克的鞋中包括一个300瓦的无刷电机，为8个聚氨酯轮子提供动力。鞋子当中还有一个AI变速箱，可以参考一系列传感器采集的穿着者步行数据来加快或减慢速度。这款鞋还能测试到下坡运动以预防事故。
Moonwalkers are not skates. Theyre shoes. The worlds fastest shoes actually, Xunjie Zang, founder2 and CEO of Shift Robotics said. You dont skate in them. You walk. You dont have to learn how to use them, the shoes learn from you.
Shift Robotics企业的开创者兼首席实行官臧迅杰（音译）称：月球漫步者不是旱冰鞋，而是健步鞋，事实上它是全世界走路最快的健步鞋。你不是穿着它滑行，而是步行，你无须学习怎么用这种鞋，鞋子会学习你的走路方法。
But do the worlds fastest shoes work on uneven3 terrain4, or things like stairs? We all know how tricky5 those are to mitigate6 in rollerskates. Well, apparently7 the designers took that into consideration and implemented8 a simple gesture that allows the wearer to lock the wheels so that they can walk up or down stairs as they would in regular footwear.
但，穿着这款世界最快鞋能否在不平坦的地形上行走或爬楼梯呢？大家都了解穿旱冰鞋走这种路有多难。不过，显然设计师已经考虑到了这一点，让穿着者用一个简单的动作就能锁住轮子，如此他们就能像穿一般鞋一样上下楼梯了。
Moonwalkers were recently unveiled as part of a Kickstarter campaign that has already reached almost double its crowdfunding goal of $90,000. The first batch9 is expected to ship in March of 2023, at a retail10 price of $1,399. Thats not cheap, but then again, this isnt your average pair of shoes, its the worlds fastest pair of shoes.
月球漫步者最近作为众筹网站Kickstarter的项目推出，现在已经筹到了目的资金9万USD的近两倍。第一批鞋子预期将在2023年3月发货，零价格为1399USD（约合人民币10189元）。这个价格不实惠，不过这可不是一双一般的鞋子，而是全世界最快的鞋子。
