Hyundai Motor is coming to CES 2022 with a few new ideas:  ‘Metamobility’ and the Mobility of Things (MoT). According to the automaker, the Mobility of Things (MoT) will present “movement of traditionally inanimate objects through the company’s robotics technology.” 

Metamobility is an idea that encapsulates Hyundai’s imaginative and prescient for the way forward for robotics and mobility, wherein mankind will develop a device-metaverse connection to develop mobility to digital actuality (VR). According to Hyundai, robots “will act as a medium between the real world and virtual spaces, enabling users to make changes in the metaverse to be reflected in reality.”

“The idea behind Metamobility is that space, time, and distance will all become irrelevant. By connecting robots to the metaverse, we will be able to move freely between both the real world and virtual reality,” stated Euisun Chung, the Group’s Executive Chair, throughout his presentation, “Going one step further from the immersive ‘be there’ proxy experience that the metaverse provides, robots will become an extension of our own physical senses, allowing us to reshape and enrich our daily lives with Metamobility.”

We all hope that people will nonetheless be related on this vibrant future!

Following Hyundai’s recent acquisition of Boston Dynamics for almost $1 billion ($880M), Hyundai Motor targeted its bulletins on robotics and unveiled a variety of robots at CES 2022.

Hyundai showcased the Plug & Drive (PnD) modular platform, an clever mobility answer that mixes steering, braking, in-wheel electrical drive, and suspension {hardware}.

Thanks to its steering actuator, the single-wheel system can flip 360 levels, a function that enables holonomic motion, so the unit acts as a determine skater. As proven within the photograph beneath, the PnD is provided with LiDAR and digicam sensors for autonomous movement.

A PnD module with a 5.5 inch wheel

A broad vary of objects or platforms can connect to the PnD modules, from tables to containers, and customers will be capable of select numerous drive configurations and unit sizes.

Dong Jin Hyun, Ph.D., VP and Head of Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor, and Nicole Scott, Producer, Beyond Innovation on stage.

“The PnD Module is adaptive and expandable to match human needs. Because in the world to come, you won’t move your things — they will move around you,” stated Dong Jin Hyun, VP and Head of Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor. “PnD makes normally inanimate objects mobile. It’s this ability that makes changing practically any space possible. It’s a way to configure spaces on demand.”

Hyun talked about how workplace areas could possibly be configured and reconfigured on-demand, so individuals at all times work in an optimum atmosphere designed for a selected mission.

CES gives Hyundai the chance to show 4 PnD ideas reflecting a number of features of MoT, together with Personal Mobility, Service Mobility, Logistics Mobility, and L7 (a modified Personal Mobility pod).

Personal Mobility

Service Mobility

Logistics Mobility

Such wheeled platforms may be custom-made into another type of MoT module. Although Hyundai talked about 4 purposes, they level out that MoT potentialities are limitless.

For instance, the Personal Mobility idea is a cabin on 4 PnD modules. It may transport somebody over quick distances managed by a easy joystick, no pedal or steering wheel required. Personal Mobility modules could possibly be envisioned attaching and detaching from a “mother shuttle” for environment friendly “last-mile” transportation.

Below, the L7 idea pushes issues to the intense and options 12-inch PnD modules, and reveals how one other, extra comfy, kind of Personal Mobility design could possibly be envisioned.

At the roundtable after the convention, Dong Jin Hyun, VP, and Head of Robotics Lab at Hyundai Motor, and Marc Raibert, Chairman and Founder of Boston Dynamics, defined, amongst different issues, that next-gen robots is not going to exchange human employees however as an alternative will improve human capabilities to assist unlock hundreds of thousands of latest employment alternatives. During the session, I used to be questioning once we will see PnDs in our streets or if we must construct new cities round that idea…

The L7 private mobility idea

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