Mount Tai in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong is known to “converts the legs of prospective riders into jelly”, as it is 1524 meters high and more than 7,000 steps.

Video on all Chinese social media, such as the Douyin application, similar to Tiktok, show even the strongest hikers to tremble, collapse or try to climb by four.

The technology, however, “gives a helping hand” to the stubborn people who want to climb up to the top. In fact, it gives a … leg of help, since a modern -day extracurricular construction is assisted so that those who are tired will eventually manage to climb the mountain.

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On January 29, Chinese New Year’s Eve, ten artificial intelligence existers made their debut on Mount Tai (Taishan in Mandarin), attracting more than 200 users with a 60 yuan charge to 80 yuan (7-11 euros) per time of use during one time use during one time Pilot week, according to Xinhua news agency.

The mechanism was jointly developed by the Taishan Cultural Tourism Group and Kenqing Technology, a Shenzhen -based technology company. The device is designed to “wrap” around the waist and thighs of users and weighs only 1.8 kg.

With the support of AI algorithms, it can detect users’ movements and provide “synchronized help” to soften the weight of the legs.

Each robotic extruder works with two batteries, which last about five hours.

By mountaineering to older care

In addition to making mountaineering much easier, these hiking brackets have triggered online discussions about their wider applications in a country struggling with a “elderly population”.

Last year, the 22% of China’s population It was over 60 years old and this figure is expected to rise to 30% by 2035, with the elderly exceeding 400 million, according to the Chinese National Statistics Office.

And the size of the smart care market in China was estimated at 6.8 trillion yuan (about $ 934 billion) in 2024, the Chinese state -run CCTV television network said.

Kenqing Technology, the co-authorship of robotic extrinsics, founded in 2015, looks forward to this huge elderly care market. It has developed an extracurricular specially designed for older users, weighing 2.4 kg and priced at 17,000 yuan (2,221 euros) in the Chinese e -commerce giant Taobao.