Get ready for Metamobility

HYUNDAI envisions an interactive and partly virtual future it calls “metamobility,” where a variety of robotic devices interact with humans to provide a broad range of mobility services, from automated individual transportation to remote control of robots in “smart” factories.

Hyundai executives, led by chief executive Euisun Chung, elaborated on that vision in a media briefing at the annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Hyundai expects to leverage its growing expertise in robotics and artificial intelligence to build out a future mobility network that links human beings in the real world with objects and tasks in the virtual world.

The concept refers to shared virtual world environments which people can access via the internet, and which can make use of virtual reality or augmented reality.

Hyundai offered several examples of how it might link the metaverse and the real world:

A vehicle that can be transformed into a work space or an entertainment room.

A “smart” factory where humans outside the plant remotely control robots that interact with machines and products inside the plant.

Automated personal transportation devices for people with disabilities or individuals who want to maintain social distances while travelling.

To make all this work, the carmaker said it was building a Mobility of Things ecosystem that will link modular robotic platforms to perform different mobility services. - Spot.