The self-driving Personal Mobility Device (PMD) weighs about 50kg and moves at a walking pace of 1m per second.
A prototype of the self-driving Personal Mobility Device (PMD) is now open for public trials.
SMART, together with National University of Singapore (NUS), unveiled this to the media on 17 Nov 2016.
Please see SMART Factsheet (above) and MIT News for more. This research is based on a paper Autonomous Mobility Scooter for Multi-class Mobility-on-Demand Service.
This story was covered widely in Singapore. Media coverage includes: Reuters, The Straits Times/AsiaOne, Channel News Asia.
