Yamaha surprised visitors at the Tokyo Motor Show this week when they displayed a motorcycle-riding robot.
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Called the Motobot, the humanoid robot was shown riding Yamaha's most sporting motorcycle. Yamaha says the Motobot is part of a research and development effort to get a robotic rider to ride an unmodified motorcycle around a racetrack. The complex task of controlling a high-speed motorcycle on a racetrack requires a high degree of accuracy. Yamaha hopes to eventually use that technology to make safety systems for motorcycles that are similar to stability control and crash avoidance systems in cars.
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