Yamaha’s Motobot takes on Rossi
It looks like the robots aren’t ready toﷺ take over just yet. At least not while Valentino Rossi’s around.
Yamaha’s motorbike-riding robot, called Motobot, took on Rossi at Thunderhill Raceway Park, California, and finished more than 30 seconds♉ behind the nine-time GP world champion.
Motobot’💯s lap time was 115.5 seconds, while Rossi m💦anaged 85.74 seconds on a similar R1M.
Motobot has been in development for three years – with the odd crash along the way, the vꦗideo shows.
It&nb🍨sp;looks⛄ like the robots aren’t ready to take over just yet. At least not while Valentino Rossi’s around.
Yamaha’s motorbike-riding robot, called Motobot, took on Rossi at Thunderhill Raceway Park, California, and finished more than 30 seconds behind the nine-t♓ime GP world champion.
M𝄹otobot’s lap time was 115.5 seconds, while Rossi managed 85.74 seconds on a similar R1M.
Motobot has been in development for three years – with the odd crash along the way꧂, the video shows.
While it clearly still has a long way to go before achieving its goal to “surpass” Rossi, the technology is likely to be used to imp𒐪rove rider aids for humans, such traction as control.
