From my own flat to a workshop in Berlin.
Most of the work went into making it quiet.
The first thing I built was a miniature, cut at home on a laser cutter, just to see if the idea held. Then came more than a year of prototypes, because a manual walking pad that is genuinely quiet turns out to be a hard problem. Today a small team assembles every one by hand at our Berlin workshop, from EU parts, a few at a time.
The stages
Every part in it can be replaced.
The frame is wood and steel, not plastic and aluminium. The bearings are Italian steel, built to industrial standard. The surface is soft touch covers on the slats, washable and replaceable one at a time. There is no motor and no sealed unit anywhere in it.
Because every part has a name, none of it is a mystery and none of it is landfill. A worn part is a spare part, and we keep those on the shelf for 10 years.
THE PARTS
THE ASSEMBLY
THE TEST
Two rigs, running constantly.
One runs at our Berlin workshop and one at Intertek in Nuremberg, at different weights and in different situations, so faults show up on the rig instead of in your home.
One Walker, start to finish
The parts
Wood, steel, bearings and slats arrive from EU suppliers.
The assembly
Built by hand on the bench, one at a time.
The test
Checked, walked on, numbered and packed plastic free.
Building by hand means a queue, so here is the queue
Assembling and testing every Walker in one workshop puts a real ceiling on how fast they leave. We are at 250 a month and that grows as we hire. This is where the sequence stands, and I would rather tell you it moved than quietly let it slip.
The pilot run, 30 to 40 units
A small first run goes out at the end of September. Its job is to find the edge cases and break the packaging and the shipping before volume starts, not to clear the queue.
The first backer batch, 250 units
Backer fulfilment starts properly in October, and carries on pledge tier by pledge tier from there.
The waitlist locks in
More than 28,000 people are on the waitlist. From mid November you can lock in an order below the price the store will later charge.
The store opens to everyone
Capacity moves to 500 a month, the remaining backers are shipped, and ordering opens here at the public price.
Updated 7 September 2026
Made in Berlin means a small team you can actually reach.
Each batch is assembled and inspected in one workshop, by hand, and every Walker carries a serial number tied to its batch and finish.
That is slower, and that is the point. Someone here is accountable for every one that goes out.
Inside the workshop
Get your name down for one.
Backers get theirs first. After that the waitlist orders, below the price the store will charge once it opens to everyone. Tens of thousands of people are already on it, so it is worth putting your name down now.