Dreame, the company we know for robot vacuums and other home appliances, has unveiled a rocket-powered supercar – the Nebula Next O1 Jet Edition – that can go from 0 to 100km/h in less than a second.
The concept car was revealed at the Dreame Next conference at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco.
It is powered by custom built dual solid rocket boosters which can produce the sort of power usually discussed by NASA not a car company and certainly not an appliance company.
That power is 100kN – that’s kilo Newtons – and can react in 150ms.
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It can go from a standing start and reach 100km/h on 0.9 seconds.
The aerodynamic chassis has been designed to support that kind of thrust and speed and provides a level of downward force to keep it on the road like it’s on rails.
While the muscle side of the car is obvious, the other major component is its brain.
The Next Nebula 01 Jet Edition’s Intelligent Cockpit can understand not only the driver’s destination but also the driver’s habits.
This technology is forming the bedrock of Dreame’s propulsion vision and self-driving technology.
This self-learning and self-adapting system gets more personal the longer you drive it.
And the more you drive it, the smarter it becomes.
It uses proactive AI that can understand intention and read context and the situation.
It can predict risk and react much faster than a human driver ever could and learns from the lifecycle of the vehicle
Dreame’s intelligent cockpit is powered by Metis – a highly advanced symbiotic AI agent which uses LiDAR and camera perception, road traction prediction and chassis and controller perception.
Metis can think, learn and collaborate and coordinate itself based on your needs.
Naturally one of Dreame’s goals is a full self-driving vehicle that can drop you off at your destination and then go and find a parking.
At the end of the day the owner would summon the vehicle before it arrives and drives them home or to their next destination.
For this Dreame has developed the SEWE Advanced Autonomous Brain.
It uses next generation LiDAR – the world’s first 6D full colour LiDAR platform
with 4320 channel full colour 4K ultra high definition and 400m maximum detection range.
It can detect small items like traffic comes and animals from more than 200m away.
Dreame showed off its first EV supercar – the Nebula 1 – earlier this year at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
* Stephen Fenech travelled to San Francisco as a guest of Dreame
