Three-time Olympic medalist Eliud Kipchoge has recently become the first person to break the last great barrier of modern athletics by running a marathon in under two hours; he used Nike’s super shoe. Humans have developed performance augmentation devices for elite sport and recreation over centuries; clap-skates allow speed skaters to move almost 50% faster than shoes while racing bikes can nearly double the top speed of human running. People like sports, recreation is integral to a healthy lifestyle, and performance augmentation devices can be life-saving in law enforcement and rescue operations. This Seeding Success Grant supports our effort to create new-generation performance augmentation devices that promise superhuman autonomy and mobility to benefit our society.
