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Robots Are Stringing Together These Adidas Running Shoes
For the past three years, the world of running has been obsessed with one technology: carbon-fiber plates. The springy plates that help to push runners forward are now used by almost all running shoe manufacturers in their top-end shoes. But as sports companies have raced to embed the carbon plates in their running shoes, the foot-hugging fabric material that sits on the top of trainers has been neglected. This story originally appeared on WIRED UK. Adidas has revealed that for the last four years its computer and sports scientists have been secretly working on a brand new way to create a shoe's upper.
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