Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “This AI Robot Exoskeleton Made Me Run Faster Than Ever”.
Exoskeletons are finally stepping out of Science Fiction into the real world and, yes, you can buy one right now. This is the densis X1. It’S an exoskeleton that uses AI to learn how you walk and how you run to help you hike longer and run faster than ever. So, let’s go check it out. I to start one of the claims.
I am going to see how much the exoskeleton actually helps me when I’m walking up a very Steep Hill, I’m going to do it once without the exoskeleton and the second time with the exoskeleton then compare the time it takes me and of course I had to Find one of the steepest streets in San Francisco: it is so steep they’ve even got stairs up the side, so you know it’s going to be tough. I’M not going to take that easy way out, though, I’m going to go straight up this hill over 30 % grade okay without the exoskeleton. I’M not looking forward to this ready. 1. 2.
2. 3. Go that about now that I would love a little boost.
Stop just give me a minute give me a minute that was a lot. Okay, excess Skeleton on I’m going to turn it on. Let’S see, okay, we are in the assist mode and it’s got six different levels of assistance. So, of course, I’m going to crank it up to number six, because why not? I don’t want to do this, but hopefully this one’s going to be easy.
All right, 1, 2. 3. Go doesn’t feel all that different yet, but we’ll see when I start to get tired, it’s still hard. Don’T get me wrong. This is still really not a pleasant experience, but I don’t feel as winded yet, even though I don’t feel like it’s giving me that much support it’s just a little bit, stop okay, I’m still pretty winded, as you can tell, even with level six assist. That was a tough heel, so next one also has a workout mode that basically resists you, so you can use it to train, but I’m going to use it to help me. Go down the hill resistance, the highest level. Okay, let’s go [ Applause, ] down! I don’t feel like I’m barreling down the hill, like I feel like it’s almost like.
I’Ve got little brakes built in better than my feet, all right the results of our highly unscientific test. I wonder if I was actually any faster with the ex skeleton without the exoskeleton 56 seconds. Okay, not bad with the exoskeleton. Did it feel faster? It felt easier. It didn’t feel faster, 51 seconds no 51 seconds 5 Seconds faster that did not. Okay did not feel 5 Seconds faster, that’s wild, like it actually made me 5 Seconds faster up this hill, a number six assist.
I was not expecting that at all, so it works it’s not scientifically tested, but it’s tested enough for my purposes. Yeah, that’s pretty cool! The AI assist is powered by a deep Learning System trained on walking data that predicts your future joint movements 1. Second, ahead of time, then the X1 helps your leg move in the predicted Direction and you’ll feel the assistance I’ve wor exoskeletons in the past.
That really feel like they’re, giving you a lot of different assistance in different areas of the body, but the X1 doesn’t really feel. I guess that pronounced it’s really quite subtle. The best analogy is, if you just feel like you’re, not using as much effort to like get up a hill or go running, it just feels like you’re a little bit lighter, rather than someone giving you a prod along now.
The X1 only weighs 1.6 kilos, so it it is pretty lightweight. It is not super uncomfortable to wear. It does take a little bit of time to get used to having kind of this extra weight around your waistband and on your hips, but once you’re in the middle of that workout, you don’t really notice it that much and overall the unit is going to give You around 25 to 30 km of battery span, so that’s as long as you’re going to get on one charge, but you can swap out the battery really easily and the claim is it can make.
You go as fast as 20 7 km an hour, never run that fast in my entire life. So it’s going to be interesting to see if it can make me faster. All right now comes the speed test. I am not a fast runner by any stretch of the imagination, but I’m going to see if I can reach that 27 km an hour claim. I highly highly doubt it, but I am going to be using a speedometer on my phone as I run, to see if I can go full throttle and how fast I can get assist is going to be at level six yep. Let’S double check we’re on level. Six yep level, six confirmed okay, it’s super windy. Let’S try, okay, ready Full Throttle, I’m going to take me a while to get there three 2 1. I come is out. Oh my God: 19 19 19. It does out as as fast as I got. Okay wow.
It actually like didn’t, feel anywhere near as hot as running that stretch without out wood, I’m still out of breath, but it’s really cool cuz. I actually really really felt it kick on, as I was getting faster, wow more so than when I was walking up a hill, I’m going to go catch my breath as much as I want to use this in a running race. I’D probably get kicked out. So the bigger applications are rehab recovery and for people who can’t use as much energy on long walks and Hikes, especially if you need to avoid your heart rate going over a certain threshold. One other thing to keep in mind. This is a Kickstarter project, so with any crowdfunding project do proceed with caution, but at the time of recording this video, the X1 has met its funding goal. That was tough, but actually I felt really empowered. When I was running – and I could feel the assist really kicking on and just giving me that extra boost that I needed – that’s so hard for me to run that fast at any kind of prolonged stretch. So I still going to have to train a lot.
But that’s the fastest, I’ve probably ever run in a very very, very long time. All thanks to this guy, unbelievable. I never felt like. I was out of control with this on me. I always felt like I had the ability to stop whenever I needed to, and I absolutely did as you saw, I could stop and it was totally fine.
You know you’re on peace, for a 5 minute M five. No, I I heard what you said, but I was like one five minute model. I I never thought my body would be capable of doing that. I mean obviously yeah you’d have to sustain that.
As I said, but that’s wild. I did not think I could do that thanks so much for watching. I hope you enjoyed this episode as always love to hear your thoughts and questions about the exoskeleton drop me a comment down below. Let me know what other wildtech products you want me to try. Next see you later .