This adorable and available-in-many-colors little creature was designed by Nissan and could be seen at this year’s CEATEC convention (2008) biomimetic car by Nissan.
Busy as bees, Nissan is in the process of working on a crash prevention system that makes use of the type of technology that bees use in practicing crash avoidance. Research on bees and their navigation has provided some insight to Nissan engineers on how to design the next generation of sophisticated automotive technology.
Based on joint project with the Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology at Japan’s prestigious University of Tokyo, the Biomimetic Car Robot or BR23C is a robotic micro-car that mimics bee navigation with the goal of producing a system that prevents collisions altogether.
This video is a clip from the convention:
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