A World With Nobody Left Behind
Moving our bodies is one of the best ways to feel healthy, confident, and connected to the world around us. It’s also…hard. And it gets harder with every year of a life well lived. Having experienced many movement challenges - both ourselves and through the people we love - we’ve seen their outsized effect on every other part of life.
Our team met while working at Google X where we spent years exploring how wearable robotics can best support human movement. Now at Skip, we’re building a new product category called movewear - integrating exoskeleton technology into consumer products that support you as you move effortlessly, confidently, and joyfully.
We believe that it’s not enough to make mobility products that are useful - to make a real difference in how people move they need to be something you can’t wait to put on in the morning and tell all your friends about.
We hope you’ll join us on our journey!
Introducing Movewear
A New Product Category for the 21st Century
You’ve got sleepwear for ultimate comfort and outerwear for ultimate protection from the elements. Movewear gives you ultimate support when you’re on the move.
At Skip, we believe the most meaningful way to make progress on mobility - one of the biggest challenges of the century - is through products that are wearable, powered, & designed for the “missing middle” of users that has historically been overlooked. We’re calling them Movewear.
Movewear takes learnings from disparate industries and brings them together in a radically new way:
The deep tech learnings of the exoskeleton space around how to transfer forces (power) to the body effectively
The algorithmic approaches of the artificial intelligence & machine learning spaces for how to understand and interpret data (movement data in this case) to augment users in ways that feel natural, desirable, and trustworthy
The human factors learnings of what makes a supremely comfortable wearable device
The UX and industrial design learnings of the consumer tech space about what makes an easy-to-use, good-looking product that helps drive meaningful behavior change
MO/GO™ is Skip’s first Movewear product.
We’ll be sharing more content in the coming weeks about our category design philosophy. Follow us to learn more and reach out if you have thoughts you’d like to share!
Meet the Team
Kathryn Zealand
Tech
Anna Roumiantseva
Product
Patrick Franks
Controls
Alex Gryb
Software
Nic Hite
Software
Tess Jarrett
Operations
Erik Lamers
Hardware
Shane Mattner
Embedded
Andy Metzger
Robotics
Keaton Scherpereel
Controls
Daniel Tachibana
Soft Goods