Elevate (car)

History

2018: Announcement

In Las Vegas Hyundai presented at a January exhibition of consumer CES 2019 electronics as the company approves, the walking car. It is focused on use in rescue operations and also physically disabled people.

Wheels of the machine which received the name Elevate are built in "robotic legs" thanks to which the vehicle can "go, go and even to climb the most difficult surface", including to step through two-meter over a fence, reported in Hyundai.

Elevate is the cornerstone the modular platform for electric vehicles with a replaceable body capsule which can be cargo or passenger. Robotic folding "legs" have five degrees of freedom and are equipped individual, the electric motors which are built in in naves of wheels. The device is capable to go as the normal car, to rise by one-and-a-half-meter walls and to step the same size of a hole, moving at the same time in any direction.

According to engineers, cars they spotted the principles of work of "extremities" both at mammals, and at reptiles. At the same time manages movement of the rescue module of the electronic engineer: Elevate is supplied also with the system of off-line control.

The South Korean company considers that the new model will be able to facilitate work on delivery of humanitarian aid in combat conditions, to help rescuers and services of ambulance and to work as the taxi for slow-moving passengers (for example, moving in a wheelchair).

Our idea is in helping absolutely different people. Not only in a difficult environment, but also in the cities. The machine will be useful also during some technogenic accidents. If, say, the house cannot leave the disabled person on a carriage, the machine itself will rise and will take away it — the representative of Hyundai David Byron told.[1]

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