[Moto] Yamaha invests 100 million for the motorcycles of the future

[Akrapovic]

Yamaha has invested $100 million in artificial and robotic technology: a huge budget that will need to be translated into great future innovations.

 

 

Experts (at least many of them) warn that we are getting closer to machines being smarter than us (some say that, depending on the case, this is not so difficult). Once we reach that point, it is possible that we are facing a "before and after" in the life of the human being. When will a machine program itself? Can an AI system (artificial intelligence) “suffer” or feel “happiness”? Will there come a time when disconnecting a machine is like killing a living being?

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We confess that these issues fascinate us but we don't have the remotest idea about it. What we can say is that Yamaha has just founded the Yamaha Motor Exploratory Fund, L.P. in the United States. II, a 10-year fund financed by the company with an endowment of 100 million dollars (93.2 million euros) to explore new technologies. The brand wants to invest in technology companies and for this it has created what is called Yamaha Motor Ventures (YMV), which since 2015 has been operating in the famous Silicon Valley (USA).

 

 

Yamaha invests 100 million for the motorcycles of the future
Yamaha: 100 million dollars for the motorcycle of the future
One of the objectives of the company Yamaha Motor Ventures (YMV) is "to move people and goods around the world" and for this it invests in "startups" that it considers interesting. The fields of greatest interest for Yamaha are: automation, robotics, data analysis and AI (artificial intelligence).

We already saw what Yamaha was able to do with its Motobot, a robot that could take a Yamaha R1 around a circuit without any external help. Something that at the time seemed science fiction. Or the prototype of the motorcycle that did not fall down. At the rate that AI is developing, it is difficult to imagine what we will see in the coming years, although we still prefer to go to the controls…

 

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