Driving on wheels and walking on rough terrain
Exploration and transportation of emergency supplies, etc.
Hyundai Motor Group introduced’walking unmanned mobility’ that combines mobility and robotics (robotics) technology.
On the 10th, Hyundai Motor Group unveiled the Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot, an intelligent ground mobile robot that transforms through its official YouTube channel.
The Tiger, developed by the Hyundai Motor Group’s future mobility organization’New Horizons Studio’, is a small unmanned mobility that has a length of about 80 cm, a width of about 40 cm, and a weight of about 12 kg with 4 legs and wheels. The design was made in collaboration with Autodesk, a leading company in the field of artificial intelligence (AI)-based engineering design, and Sundberg-Ferar, a concept design company.
Hyundai Motor Group explained that Tiger can move freely on rough terrain that even high-performance off-road vehicles cannot go to. Tiger is designed for tasks that are difficult to perform with ordinary vehicles, such as scientific exploration and research using various sensors, transportation of emergency supplies in case of emergency rescue, and delivery of goods to remote areas. You can easily change the direction left and right as well as forward and backward.
In particular, Tiger can “stand up” and walk with robotic legs when passing through terrain that is difficult to pass with obstacles or wheels, and can “transform” into a four-wheel drive vehicle on flat terrain and drive at speed. Since the robot legs can always be leveled, goods can be safely transported even in areas with irregular road conditions such as rough roads and polar regions. Hyundai Motor Group said that it also strengthened the protection function of goods by having a separate cargo compartment inside the vehicle body.
Tiger has a modular platform structure similar to the concept of’Elevate’ for walking mobility that was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, USA in 2019. However, the elevator was a concept in which a person boarded, and Tiger was developed as a small unmanned mobility from the beginning.
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