CES 2022: Hyundai unveils on vision of new Metamobility concept, ‘Expanding Human Reach’ through Robotics & Metaverse

Hyundai at the CES 2022

CES 2022, which takes place in Las Vegas from the 5th-7th January 2022, is the first offline CES event to be held post-pandemic. We used the opportunity to share our hopeful message about connecting people and making progress for humanity. We explored the world of robotics and showed how our robotics will fundamentally change the way we live, work, and move in the future.

Moving Humans Beyond Limitations

Marc Raibert, Founder and Chairman of Boston Dynamics, talks about how Hyundai and Boston Dynamics are “a match made in heaven.” Hyundai and Boston Dynamics share a core belief that robots are more than just machines, but very useful and trusted companions in which partnered together can improve safety, productivity, and quality of life.

VEX, for example, is a wearable robot helping humans to protect their bodies and enhance their own strength. The next-generation wearable robot will continue to be developed, eventually allowing us to do extraordinary things — from lifting heavy payloads to saving lives.

Moreover, Boston Dynamics robotics technology grants unprecedented mobility to humanity, expanding our reach to places we couldn’t reach before. To deep oceans and natural disaster areas, SPOT can go on behalf of mankind to places we would never even consider sending humans — SPOT was sent to Fukushima and Chernobyl, which was the beginning of a partnership between humans and robots.

Boston Dynamics is further expanding this passion to explore other planets and, in fact, is already working with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to realize this dream in the future.

Moving Things Beyond Imagination

Hyundai’s robotics vision goes beyond expanding our capabilities. Vice President and Head of the Robotics Lab at Hyundai, Dong Jin Hyun, introduces the latest innovation — a universal tool that will move the world in a completely new direction.

Plug & Drive Module (PnD) is an all-in-one solution with intelligent steering, braking, in-wheel electric drive, and suspension hardware — all in a single-wheel unit. With infinite wheel rotation, the module is extremely flexible and can move interactively within surrounding environments with LiDAR and camera sensors — it’s not only a reinvention of a wheel but also a reinvention of the way we might use wheels in the future.