Liu Cixin, the author of Yiche's original "Three-Body Problem", said: "The future of mankind will either go outward to interstellar civilization or develop civilization to the inner virtual world." The meta-universe is undoubtedly like this, this concept is the hottest concept in the field of capital and the Internet this year, some time ago a virtual land on the virtual game platform Sandbox, sold for $4.3 million news, but also to pass on this trendy concept to more ordinary people. In fact, the metacosm is essentially a result of the virtualization and digitization of the real world.
To put it simply, the metacosm is actually mainly a virtual world plus user-created content and blockchain, in which every user can build and transform, and eventually form a highly liberal world. Coupled with the decentralized blockchain, the metacosm has a transparent, independent economic system, which also makes the metacosm different from ordinary virtual world games. Enterprises with more means of production and capital power in the real world are more suitable to become pioneers under the new concept of the metacosm.
As early as October this year, Hyundai Motor Group launched the meta-universe game "Hyundai Mobility Adventure" on the meta-universe platform Roblox. The game is a collectively shared virtual space where different users can meet and communicate through the game. At the same time, players can use specific digital characters to experience Hyundai's mobility products and services.
The realization of the metaverse also needs other technical conditions to support, including high-speed network propagation such as 5G or even 6G, super computing power and cloud computing to achieve 10,000 people on the same screen, global clothing and more wearable devices to provide a better immersive experience. Modern cars want to achieve the travel needs of different human beings for different purposes through different wearable robot devices.
To this end, Hyundai Motor acquired Boston Dynamics, which is known for its world-class robot research and development capabilities, in June this year, and brought two robots Spot and Atlas that may connect the real world and metaverse in the future at CES 2022.
Spot
Spot's movement is more agile and can be equipped with a robotic arm and a camera, excellent mobility allows it to take on more complex tasks and can go to scenes that humans cannot reach, for example, it can appear in future security checks, disaster relief and other scenes
Atlas
Atlas has the most advanced hardware, its excellent control system and bipedal human design, so that it has a human-level agility and balance, it is also very likely to be the first in the future to complete the real world and the metaverse of the robot, become an extension of our physical senses, to perceive more of the daily life in the virtual world.
In addition to the two robots, Hyundai has also leveraged the experience of automakers to bring about mobility possibilities, introducing plug & Drive (PnD) and Drive & Lift (DnL) modular unicycle platforms, which appear not only for people to travel, but also to place almost any object.
The PnD platform can be scaled up or down, consisting of a single wheel driven by an electric motor, with sensors and lidar at the same time, which can achieve steering, braking and automatic movement, putting objects on top of it, PnD can move to our side. As modern official images show, PnD can move suitcases in hotels; in office environments, these autonomous mobile robots can arrange furniture, allow people to have separate cubicles, and change to plenty of open space the next day.
PnD can even serve as a last-mile transportation solution for people, a square box with wheels powered by four PnDs can be separated from the larger public transportation system and deliver commuters to their own doorsteps, and even PnD can serve as a mobile hospital for emergency rescue, providing users with a more convenient life.
summary:
At CES 2022, Hyundai does paint a blueprint for us of a future mobility solution, as Kim Dong-hyun, head of Hyundai Motor Group's Robotics Lab, said: "In the future world, we will not move our own things, but as the PnD module moves traditional inanimate objects, these things will actually move around us." ”
With robots with future-linked metaversms, it's not hard to imagine that in the future life, humans will have mobility options that transcend distance and space. The characteristics of the metaverse can also get rid of the time limit to the greatest extent, which is the new vision of mobility based on robot technology and metaverse that modern cars want to express, and also to meet the human desire for unlimited freedom of movement.