Yamaha's Y/AI, an idea superbike with spokeless wheels
Yamaha Motor presents Y/AI, yr you– impressed idea superbike with no phrase, futuristic wheels that glow in the dead of night. The motorbike seems within the Netflix anime collection Tokyo Override, which can also be the start line of the idea mannequin. Netflix contacted the motor firm to request using chosen bikes for the sci-fi anime collection. Yamaha mentioned sure and supplied 3D information, photographs and audio for 2 of their motorbike fashions: the YZF-R1 superbike and the VMAX muscle cruiser.
Combining the design of those two, the Y/AI superbike idea was born. It’s as futuristic as its title sounds. It has spokeless, semi-transparent wheels that emit blue gentle because the rider navigates it, and the motor is nowhere to be discovered as it’s hidden within the deck connected between the 2 wheels. Though it's for the Netflix collection, Yamaha additionally produced a full-scale idea mannequin of the Y/AI and premiered it on the Motor Expo 2024 in Bangkok, Thailand, which runs from November 29 to December 10.
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The Netflix collection Tokyo Overide explores the Japanese metropolis over 100 years and the place AI has been (totally) built-in into on a regular basis life. Every part is automated, and that features Yamaha Motor's superbike idea, the Y/AI. Drive by way of the streets of Tokyo in motion and magnificence and preview the mannequin's potential future design inspiration of the corporate bikes. Subsequent-generation fashions can assist two forks on the entrance of the car and have a geometrical, minimal physique form. The tail ends abruptly with a drop, however it’s exactly this fall that makes the look aggressive and progressive. The handlebars sit on the facet of the forks, joined by a spring that rotates across the entrance.
With the current applied sciences and their continuous updates, making AI-inspired superbikes just like the Y/AI may be possible they usually received't simply be referred to as ideas anymore. The YZF-R1 superbike and VMAX muscle cruiser additionally seem within the collection together with the Y/AI. Along with designing an AI-inspired superbike idea for the present, Yamaha additionally assisted the manufacturing crew in constructing the anime's 100-year-old utopia and supplied them with sound results supervision for superbike driving. Viewers can see and expertise these Yamaha contributions once they watch Tokyo Override, which is proven on the streaming platform beginning November 21, 2024.
Yamaha Motor introduces Y/AI, an AI-inspired superbike idea with glow-in-the-dark wheels
the motorbike seems within the Netflix anime collection Tokyo Override
the rear with a pointy “fork” serves as taillights
the headlights emit a glow from two skinny strips
the wheels of the Yamaha superbike Y/AI idea are semi-transparent