In January 2020, Hyundai revealed concept renders and CGI video of its Ultimate Mobility Vehicles (UMV) – essentially a pod with robotic legs and wheels that can traverse the world’s toughest landscapes.
Dubbed Hyundai Elevate, the original CES concept generated a small but short-lived buzz, but was largely written off as wild, blue sky thinking. However, Vice President Dr. John Suh, the man behind the concept and the person responsible for continuing the project’s work, is deadly serious about its real-world applications – as we discovered during a visit to his unassuming laboratory, named New Horizons Studio, in Fremont, San Francisco.
