RoboScooter - Clean, Green Mobility for Today’s Crowded Cities

by MIT Media Lab's Smart Cities Group (Winner of the 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge)

The RoboScooter is a lightweight, folding, electric motor scooter. It is designed to provide convenient, inexpensive mobility in urban areas while radically reducing the negative effects of extensive vehicle use – road congestion, excessive consumption of space for parking, traffic noise, air pollution, carbon emissions that exacerbate global warming, and energy use. It is clean, green, silent, and compact.

The unique design of the RoboScooter is the outcome of a collaboration involving SYM (Sanyang Motors), ITRI (Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute), and the Smart Cities group of the MIT Media Laboratory, led by Professor William J. Mitchell.

The final show-quality prototype was presented at the Milan Motor show on November 6-9th, 2007.

People
Ryan Chin, PhD Candidate, Smart Cities, Media Lab
Michael Chia-Liang Lin, MS Candidate, Smart Cities, Media Lab
Yaniv Fain, MBA '08, Sloan School of Management
Arthur Petron, MS Candidate, Smart Cities, Media Lab
Raul-David "Retro" Poblano, PhD Candidate, Smart Cities, Media Lab
Andres Sevtsuk, PhD Candidate, Dept. of Urban Studies & Planning

SYM/Sanyang Motors
Grand Wu
Wan Ching Chang

ITRI
Wen-Jean Hsueh
Eugene Hsiao
Ying-Tzu Lin
Barbara Yeh