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‘Garuda’ Electric Superbike: Indian Students Unveil AI-Driven Driverless Prototype
AI-powered Electric Bike: Two students from Surat have successfully created a custom electric motorcycle that can drive itself using the power of AI.
Utilising the power of artificial intelligence, students from Surat, Gujarat, have developed an electric motorcycle that can drive autonomously without a driver. Three mechanical engineering students developed a prototype called 'Garuda,' described as India's first AI-powered driverless electric superbike. Remarkably, this bike is made from approximately 50 percent scrap and recycled materials, a remarkable example of 'waste-to-best' engineering.
The students behind the project 'Garuda' include Shivam Maurya, Gurpreet Arora, and Ganesh Patil. The three students are from Bhagwan Mahavir University in the city of Surat. The students took a year to come up with the project after they were inspired by Tesla’s autonomous technology. The project cost the students a total of ₹1.8 lakh.
The neural network portion of ‘Garuda’ consists of a Raspberry Pi module which acts as the Central Processing Unit for the bike. This small but powerful computer is capable of recognizing and carrying out voice commands over Wi-Fi. During the demo at the showcase event, the bike was seen to change its speed and react immediately to voice commands such as ‘stop.’ The motorcycle can operate in three modes: manual, mobile phone-controlled, and fully autonomous.
