The industry advice was unanimous: build another indoor chair and chase the safe market. All-terrain was too hard, too niche, too expensive — a mountain every sensible company walked around. But riders with limited mobility live at the foot of that mountain every single day, watching everyone else climb.
There is an old saying in the founders' homeland: when you know the tigers are on the mountain, walk toward it. So two decades of quadruped and mobile-robot research was pointed deliberately at the hardest ground we could find — 40° slopes, river crossings, loose rock, wet snow. Not because it was difficult, but because difficult is exactly where riders were always told they could not go.
No ordinary path. Not for the machine, and not for the people who ride it. The hardest ground is the whole point.