Latest Upcoming Future Bike " YAMAHA Motoroid "

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  YAMAHA Motoroid

Yamaha MOTOROiD, the Japanese motorcycle giant’s AI equipped machine, was recently showcased at Auto Expo 2018. Less of a motorcycle and more like a futuristic multi-talented machine, MOTOROiD is purely electric and runs on its own without hitting things that comes as obstacles.

 

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 Some of the noticeable technologies on Yamaha MOTOROiD includes most amazing features like self-balancing, face-recognition and gesture-understanding. It starts by detecting the face of its owner while understanding hand movements further makes it smarter than all others around the segment. Honda even has a self balancing motorcycle but MOTOROiD feels far more satisfying to the user.

Future Garage can use this technology on other machines too for an exclusive ownership experience. The concept measures 2060 mm approx in length and 1090 mm approx in height.

 Apart from that, it is actually slimmer than standard motorcycles at 600 mm.

MOTOROiD weighs 213 kg approx and comes in a single seat version only. 

 

The backrest style rear sensors provide haptic feedback to the rider and creates a better relation between machine and the rider.

 

 Yamaha can try different body panels and create full fledged motorcycle out of MOTOROiD in the coming years. Style statements change a lot with times and thus, this remains a big mystery.

Balancing the Motoroid
While the name is suggestive enough of its droid-like existence, the looks further accentuate its stance.

 

 The Yamaha Motoroid, like most motorbike concepts, does not look anything like what you may have seen around.

The weight of the bike - the six Lithium-ion battery cells and the electric motor - is placed as to lower the centre of gravity as much as possible.

Essential, lowering the centre of gravity of a travelling object exerts more force downward than towards the trajectory of the bike during curves and sharp turns, in comparison to a lighter bike with its powertrain placed higher from the ground.

 This very aspect is crucial to make the bike more stable, and for a bike that needs to balance itself, it is of tantamount importance.

 

 Active Mass Center Control System
AMCES is Yamaha’s proprietary technology that makes use of sensors and electronic balancing equipment connected to a central controller to stabilise the bike, maneuver bends and turns, and go about by itself.

AMCES divides the bike’s chassis in two halves - the main chassis and the sub-frame, and actively controls the balance and force ratios of the two halves of the frame to keep the bike upright. Yamaha explains, “The basis for Motoroid’s balance control is the inverted pendulum, where using the information of the angle between the axis perpendicular to the ground and the vehicle inclination, and the inclination of the pendulum,

The Motoroid debuted at the Tokyo motor 2017, and is among the very first autonomous motorbike concepts to have come to India.

 Production plans, however, are not in sight just yet. The technology itself is still far away from being implementable on standard roads, and as it stands, the laws governing two wheelers will not make the Motoroid a road-legal vehicle for at least the near future.

Never the less, it is still an impressive feat, and also a slightly unnerving one, to see a motorbike roam about without any sort of human intervention.