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What is ITSTYLISH, a RidRoid?
In the past, the horse was a partner and a means of transportation. The fundamental concept of ITSTYLISH is the mechanical horse – a future machine lifeform produced from the latest robotics and AI technologies fused by product design. As a partner robot, it never leaves the side of its master. When the master wants to go somewhere, it transforms itself into a vehicle. Through human-machine integration, ITSTYLISH augments its master’s physical functions.
ITSTYLISH is a RidRoid, an intelligent robot that is transformable and ridable.
Folks looking for a last mile transport solution have choice-a-plenty nowadays, but the ITSTYLISH offers more than just a comfy ride. The ITSTYLISH robot – a mash up of ride and android – has some useful smarts cooked in, being able to follow its user around between rides, or make its way to a meeting point on its own.
When the master wishes to travel, ITSTYLISH automatically transforms itself into ride mode. In ride mode, ITSTYLISH supports its master as an integral part of his or her body. As the master leans right and left to make a turn, ITSTYLISH actively transforms its body and leans accordingly.
When in autonomous personal assistant mode, the ITSTYLISH sits slightly squat, with its front and rear wheels close together and its passenger seat low against the framem.
In vehicle mode, it transforms its body to make sharp turns. It gives the rider a sense of human-machine integration, as if in skiing.
The ITSTYLISH doesn't use a display to let the rider know the speed, but an ever quickening beat from built-in haptics located under the seat.
ITSTYLISH has a built-in body-sonic system. According to the travel speed, ITSTYLISH generates pulses like heartbeats, transmitted via the saddle to let the rider recognize the current speed by haptics. The steering has a force feedback, which directly transmits the radius of the turn to the rider’s arms. All these sensory functions are implemented to produce a sense of human-machine integration.
In near-accident situations, a smart stop function automatically applies brakes and prevents collisions.
ITSTYLISH thus augments the motional and sensory functions of the human-being.
FUNCTIONAL FEATURES
- Roid mode
- SLAM (localization and mapping)
- Autonomous travel (path planning and navigation)
- Automatic human following
- Operation via a tablet
- Ride mode
- Active Lean
- Smart stop (obstacle detection and automatic braking)
- Bilateral control handle bars
- Body-sonic system
KEY TECHNOLOGIES
- In-wheel drive unit
The two legs have front drive wheels at their ends and co
ITSTYLISH was designed to be less than 600 mm wide, a size similar to the breadth of a man’s shoulders. ITSTYLISH is thus small enough to look natural while moving beside its master, and large enough to let the rider feel the move as one in ride mode.
In the former mode, it's 550 mm (21.6 in) long and uses artificial intelligence smarts known as scanSLAM to generate 3D maps using data from sensors and estimate its own location within that space.
That sensor array includes 3D LiDAR, a wide angle camera and distance sensor. It runs on fuRo's own robot operating system, and can automatically follow its user around or be wirelessly controlled from a tablet or smartphone. And it can be automatically sent to a specific location, to meet its user after a meeting perhaps.
The ITSTYLISH can also transform into a scooter-like transporter, raising the seat and lengthening the ride to 750 mm (29.5 in). It rolls courtesy of in-wheel brushless motors to the 12-inch wheels at the front and steers via the 10-inch chunky rear wheel. A top speed of 10 km/h (6 mph) and 0.93 Nm of torque isn't going to win any races, but should get its rider to the lecture hall or board room in a relaxed state.
