{
  "id": 10707380,
  "title": "Engineers develop a smart shoe that could help track changes in how people walk",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/29/engineers-develop-a-smart-shoe-that-could-help-track-changes-in-how",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-29T14:00:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-smart-track-people.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Rutgers engineers have developed a smart shoe that automatically analyzes how a person walks, a technology that someday could help monitor people with Parkinson's disease, spinal cord injuries, traumatic brain injuries and other movement disorders. The prototype analyzes movement with 95.4% accuracy while counting steps and estimating calories burned.",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}