Yamaha's Self-Balancing Motorcycle Seeks to Push Human-Machine Interface

When developing a new motorcycle, Yamaha Motor's ideal outcome, called Jin-Ki Kanno, is lofty: "To deliver users the seductive exhilaration felt when they truly become one with their machine." To achieve this, they reckon the bike, not just the rider, ought have some autonomy. Thus in 2017, the company built a wild self-balancing concept bike called the MOTOROiD. They developed a technology called AMCES (loosely, "Active Mass Center Control System") that runs a diagonal axis through the...