We present to you Honda’s new UNI-CUB Personal Mobility Machine. It’s the result of extensive outside-the-box thinking and it couldn’t have come from anywhere else but Japan.
The UNI-CUB is an electrically driven machine which can carry its passenger at a maximum speed of 5.92km/h (3.7mph). It is forward motion and steering are achieved via shifting one’s weight around in the desired direction. We think this is kind-of an evolution of the Segway, but it’s more compact and designed for in-door usage. The designers made sure that its height was comparable to that of an average human leg, so that when one sits down on the UNI-CUB, he or she will be roughly as tall as they were when standing up.
We like the UNI-CUB and its ‘sitting-on-the-toilet’ position which must be relaxing as the act of sitting on a toilet is relaxing for humans in general. It will be available for testing this summer at Japan’s National Museum of Engineering. For a better understanding of how it operates, watch the video below.
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