Obstacle-avoiding personal transporter gets ready to Strutt its stuff [Video]

A Singapore startup recently launched an electric mobility concept that looks like an unhappy marriage between an office chair and a mobility scooter. The Strutt ev¹ sports a sensor array and smart algorithms that feed into a built-in drive-assist system.

Personal transporters come in all shapes and sizes – from motorized blades to ebikes to electrified quadricycles. Some you can use on public roads and some you can’t. It’s unclear at this point where the Strutt ev¹ will roll along, but perhaps it might be a good fit for business parks, university campuses or gated retirement villages. The current prototypes and development visuals don’t show any safety harnesses or rain covers though, and we expect this to be a fairly slow roller.

“Our vision is to reimagine what a mobility device can be,” says the company’s founder and CEO, Tony Hong. “The Strutt ev¹isn’t just about moving from Point …