Yamaha Deus Ex Machina Electric Cars 'Beautiful Robot'
Posted Sunday, Aug 03, 2008 by boonteud
Art Center Pasadena student Jake Loniak has taken everything that is cool about exoskeletons and motorcycles and crammed it into this Yamaha-branded Deus Ex Machina concept motorcycle. The vehicle is powered by ultra-capacitors and doped nano-phoshpate batteries (similar to the ones currently used in hybrid cars) and it is controlled using 36 pneumatic muscles with two linear actuators set along a spine consisting of seven artificial vertebrae. Even the helmet is pneumatically attached.
If constructed, the designer believes that it could achieve a top speed of 75mph (0-60mph in 3 seconds) with a recharge time of 15 minutes and cycle time of one hour. We may never know if that is true, but I say throw some sort of storage compartment on this thing and let's find out.
Tags: Beautiful, car, Deus Ex Machina, Electric Cars, photos, Robot, Yamaha
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by avava on August 3, 2008, 7:55 am
COOL!
by bat_iii on August 3, 2008, 8:10 am
I'd love to see that race against a Veyron...
by elputoyanki on August 3, 2008, 8:24 am
Circuit de la Sarthe and The Green Hell are a start. They have absolutely beautiful straights where this thing *might* make it half way through it's final gear.
by failtech on August 3, 2008, 8:43 am
Oh wait, because it would be a blast.