Hyundai made waves in 2019 with its CES showing of the Elevate concept—an "Ultimate Mobility Vehicle" that featured motorized wheels attached to five-jointed "legs" that enabled it to walk and climb, as well as drive. The best-known walking vehicles in our collective consciousness are those wielded by the evil Empire in the Star Wars movies, so think of this one as a much smaller, nimbler, more agile, friendlier version of an All-Terrain Armored Transport "Walker"—but the "feet" are swapped for electrically powered wheels. Hyundai has continued working on the Elevate concept and recently gave us a progress report.


CRADLE To New Horizons

The Elevate UMV (pictured above) was born in Hyundai's Center for Robotic-Augmented Design in Living Experiences. CRADLE has since handed the project off to Hyundai Motor Group's New Horizons Studio, which has pursued the UMV project in collaboration with engineering software developers Autodesk and with Sundberg-Ferar, a suburban Detroit-based product design/innovation studio. In developing the second generation of the Elevate UMV, Hyundai New Horizons has bestowed a new name on the concept: TIGER, which stands for Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot (below).

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