Your data. Your choice.

If you select «Essential cookies only», we’ll use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your device and how you use our website. We need this information to allow you to log in securely and use basic functions such as the shopping cart.

By accepting all cookies, you’re allowing us to use this data to show you personalised offers, improve our website, and display targeted adverts on our website and on other websites or apps. Some data may also be shared with third parties and advertising partners as part of this process.

Legal noticePrivacy notice
News + Trends
198

Hyundai builds running car

Golem de
9.5.2022
Translation: machine translated

Hyundai is opening a new research center. Among other things, employees there will be working on a car that can not only drive, but also walk.

This is an article from our content partner "Golem". Here you can find the original article by editor Werner Pluta.

Walking instead of driving: South Korean carmaker Hyundai wants to build a car with legs. It is supposed to be able to move forward even on the roughest terrain.

The UMVs are intended to be multi-purpose vehicles that can handle any terrain - on Earth as well as on other celestial bodies. So far, they have only existed as concepts. But now Hyundai has announced it will build Elevate.

Elevate walks and drives

Elevate has four wheels like a normal car, so it can drive in a conventional way. However, the wheels are suspended from robotic legs that allow a total of six degrees of freedom. They can lift the vehicle so that it can drive over obstacles. To do this, the motors are installed in the wheel hubs so that each wheel is driven individually. Elevate can also walk and even climb with its legs.

The vehicle is intended for use in rough terrain. The company sees applications in rescue forces, for example, which can use it to penetrate a disaster area, or the military. It could also be used in space travel, for example to explore a planet. The vehicle has a modular design so that different cabs can be mounted on the chassis.

The announcement was prompted by the announcement that Hyundai's New Horizons Studio (NHS) is building a new research and development center. It is to be built at the Bozeman site in the US state of Montana. The New Horizons Studio, based in Fremont, California, is the Hyundai division , which develops UMVs.

Before embarking on a two-seat Elevate, NHS will first build a transformable intelligent robot. This, Hyundai says, will also be able to navigate rough terrain while carrying different types of payloads. Hyundai did not say when the car and robot will be ready.

19 people like this article

User Avatar
User Avatar
Golem de
Redaktion
redaktion@golem.de

We not only write about IT, technology and science, we are also enthusiastic about them. We like to touch technology, try it out, play with it and explain it with journalistic ambition. Expert knowledge in our subject areas helps us to classify what we see and to maintain a critical distance. With curiosity, we investigate facts, check them out and always look beyond the edge of the monitor. We see ourselves as advocates for our readers, and dialog with them is important to us. 

News + Trends

From the latest iPhone to the return of 80s fashion. The editorial team will help you make sense of it all.

Show all