Hyundai unveils car that can walk, climb
Ethiopia, Jan. 14 -- Hyundai, the South Korea based automotive company, unveiled its latest innovation this week at the Consumer Electronics Show - a car with legs.
The vehicle, dubbed Elevate, can walk and climb in addition to drive, and is geared toward aiding emergency responders in tough-to-reach areas after a natural disaster.
"The legs have five-degrees of freedom. There's an in-wheel motor. So, these legs can walk in mammalian mode and reptilian, and that really makes it omnidirectional," David Byron, manager of design and innovation at Sundberg Ferar, a company working with Hyundai on the project, told Fox News."It can go anywhere, it can drive like a regular car but when it gets to a situation where a normal wheeled vehicle rea...
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