How Skip made motorised pants that make you feel 14 kilos lighter | Kathryn Zealand
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How Skip made motorised pants that make you feel 14 kilos lighter | Kathryn Zealand
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Kathryn Zealand’s grandmother, in her 90s, walked everywhere around her village. Then she had a couple of falls, lost her confidence, and stopped going out nearly as much. That was what first got Kathryn thinking about how technology could help people keep moving.
Today Kathryn is founder and CEO of Skip, which spun out of Google X. Its first product, MO/GO, is a pair of pants with a motor at the knee that helps the wearer climb out of a chair and up hills and stairs. It does around 30-40% of the work of a healthy person’s muscles and makes the wearer feel about 14 kilos lighter. It exists in a whole new product category which Kathryn calls “movewear”.
In this conversation with Kate Glazebrook, Kathryn talks about the myriad of challenges that Skip faced in creating the MO/GO, as well as a new venture Kathryn has embarked on: Project Stardust. In 2025, Kathryn and her husband lost their son Ziggy at full term. According to Katheryn, one in 150 pregnancies end in stillbirth, and many could be prevented with more monitoring late in pregnancy. Project Stardust is working on wearable technology that could provide greater levels of monitoring during pregnancy.