The key is the five axes its base rotates on, allowing individual wheels to be lifted off the ground and moved in a walking style.

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The firm followed up with Petman, a two-legged prototype that applies the same technology to human-style walking.

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Mr Bell, who is of Jamaican origin, said the constable mimicked Caribbean youths' style of speaking and walking.

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The 59-year-old is believed to be wearing a dark green or grey puffa-style jacket and is possibly wearing walking boots.

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Though the new road will make it easy for short trips, resort-style hikes and commercial luxuries, it will cut out the earlier walking paths that Nepal and its loyal trekkers have coveted since the country first opened its doors to outsiders in 1949.

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While it is nowhere near the theme park-style extravaganza of Universal Studios a few miles northeast, the two-hour walking tour offers an intimate look inside the filmmaking facilities.

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Within walking distance of the course is a three-bedroom, 4, 000sqft 1915 Italian Renaissance-style house with 55 windows and a concert grand piano.

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Walking back to the subway I passed a chubby man in his early thirties selling Northface and Burton trucker style hats on the sidewalk.

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