Yamaha’s Exoskeleton Motorcycle: The Deus Ex Machina

[xn85turbo]

I really want one of these 0-60 in 3 seconds.

The Yamaha-branded Deus Ex Machina concept motorcycle is powered by ultra-capacitors and nano-phoshpate batteries (Just like the ones used in today’s electric cars.) The vehicle is controlled via 36 pneumatic muscles that are attached to a spine composed of seven artificial vertebrae.

Here is the video, kind like a transformer when it gets going for speed.

http://link.brightcove.com/services/player/bcpid1735797252?bctid=1729330625

 

[TripleThreat]

That's pretty cool... Very sci-fi...

Track days on one in 2020 maybe???

 

[justariot66]

looks like something chasing the tow truck in Terminator salvation! Very cool though just dont make it too smart!

Dave

 

[cnsmoore]

I want one!

 

[sobottka]

is it supersport legal?

 

[Matt H]

Too "sci-fi" geeky for me.

 

[jaminR6]

Matt H;41467 wrote: Too "sci-fi" geeky for me.

+1 I'll stay on my R6

it's a look to the future just not for me. Now a unimotorcycle, that would be interesting

 

[xn85turbo]

Actually I found this in this months "Motorcycle" UK magazine. The article was called "What have prototypes ever done fro us?". They discussed several from the last 40 years and even this first mototorcyle ever built in 1868 by American Sylvester Roper who created a steam driven two wheeler. I bet he never imagined what 140 years of design would yeild. Prototypes eventually do become production just not all of them. This one is one of the coolest I have seen in a while, keep them coming Yamaha.

 

[Insaneman1731]

Sorry to threadjack, Robert are you going to NJMP?

 

[xn85turbo]

You have a PM.

 

[ThePro8]

Hmm, a machine exoskeloton, havne't I seen this before

All good ideas are based off of 80s cartoons

 

[beac83]

I'd take it for a test ride. Wonder how quick it is into and out of a corner? Should be smooth rolling on the power since it's an electric, but the geometry may make turns a bit wide.