Hyundai Develops Ultimate Mobility Vehicle 'TIGER X-1'

Hyundai Develops Ultimate Mobility Vehicle ‘TIGER X-1’

Hyundai Develops Ultimate Mobility Vehicle ‘TIGER X-1’

  • Hyundai Motor Company [Headquarter: Seoul, South Korea] has launched a Transformer-like robocar dubbed as TIGER X-1,  that can travel over the most challenging terrains on the Earth as well as on other planets.
  • TIGER stands for Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot, and the X-1 denotes its experimental status. 

Key Features

  • The Ultimate Mobility Vehicle (UMV) TIGER is being developed by Hyundai in partnership with Autodesk and Sundberg-Ferar.
  • Tiger is designed as a battery electric vehicle, comprising of small pod with four wheels on extendable legs.  it will be able to operate as either a four-wheel-drive vehicle or four-legged walking robot. 
  • The vehicle is unscrewed, meaning that its, main use will be to carry payloads over remote and inaccessible locations, and not the people
  • It will help in search and rescue, scientific research, military, or exploratory missions (even on new planets). 

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