Hyundai is getting serious about building a ‘walking car’ with four legs

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Who needs an Apple car when you’ve got one with four legs? Hyundai, which recently acquired a controlling stake in robot maker Boston Dynamics, rolled out the latest version of its four-legged “walking car” concept that it first unveiled in 2019.

Hyundai is calling it TIGER, which stands for “Transforming Intelligent Ground Excursion Robot.” It’s the second vehicle to come out of the automaker’s Ultimate Mobility Vehicles studio in Silicon Valley, and the first designed to be fully autonomous. It’s like a real-life Transformer, just without the “bent on world domination” vibe.

In fact, Hyundai actually thinks its four-legged vehicles have the potential…

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