Motobot Archives | Inside Motorcycles Magazine https://www.insidemotorcycles.com/tag/motobot/ Canada’s Source for Motorcycle News Since 1998 Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:25:54 +0000 en-CA hourly 1 https://www.insidemotorcycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/cropped-favicon-1-32x32.png Motobot Archives | Inside Motorcycles Magazine https://www.insidemotorcycles.com/tag/motobot/ 32 32 Trevitt’s Blog: Motobot – Can it Beat Valentino Rossi? https://www.insidemotorcycles.com/motobot-can-it-beat-valentino-rossi/ https://www.insidemotorcycles.com/motobot-can-it-beat-valentino-rossi/#respond Thu, 28 Jan 2016 03:25:54 +0000 https://dev.insidemotorcycles.com/motobot-can-it-beat-valentino-rossi/ At the Tokyo Motor Show last year, Yamaha introduced its Motobot, a humanoid robot that rides a YZF-R1. Video was released showing the Motobot riding in an open area, mostly going in a straight line, but the intention is for Motobot to ride the bike on track sometime next year and eventually beat the lap times of none other than Valentino Rossi. That is a tall order.

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