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Tokyo Motor Show 2009 will be held for a period of 13 days from October 23 to November 4, 2009. It opens to public from Saturday, October 24. It’s announced that the show theme will be “Fun Driving for Us, Eco Driving for Earth.”
Subaru’s latest prototype model will be displayed to the public for the first time at the upcoming show. Billed as an environmentally-friendly grand touring car, the Subaru Hybrid Tourer Concept is a four-passenger hybrid vehicle equipped with gullwing doors.
The Robot Harvester is designed by industrial designer Olga Kalugina. It is a self driven robot created to scan street territories and shopping centers for trash and accumulate them to the right place for disposal and recycling.
Honda Motor Co develops a new personal mobility devise – first drive system that enables movement in all directions. It was designed to take up the same amount of space as a human being to be safe and unobtrusive enough to mingle with pedestrians.
Key specifications of U3-X experimental model:
- Length – 315 mm
- Width – 160 mm
- Height – 650 mm
- Battery Type – lithium ion battery
- Operation time (fully charged battery) – 1 hour
- Weight – 22 pounds and is small enough to be carried as hand luggage
Honda’s new U3-X experimental vehicle device looks like a unicycle. It has the regular large wheel of a unicycle, which is made up of many tiny motor-controlled wheels, packed inside the bigger wheel. The device can move in any direction, including not only forward and backward, but also directly to the left and right and diagonally, just as in human walking. To move, you lean your body weight the direction you want to go.