{"id":2766,"date":"2023-06-20T10:56:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2766"},"modified":"2023-06-20T10:56:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T02:56:38","slug":"californias-lightning-motors-is-building-organic-motorcycles-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.icaridea.com\/?p=2766","title":{"rendered":"California’s Lightning Motors is building ‘organic’ motorcycles with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

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FOX Business correspondent Lydia Hu has the latest on jobs at risk as AI further develops on "America’s Newsroom."<\/p>\n

Lightning Motorcycles is speeding up the design of its bikes with the help of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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The San Jose, California-based, electric motorcycle builder has started using the new Fusion 360 computer-aided design software system from Autodesk that leverages AI-based generative design to develop complex components in a fraction of the time it would take engineers to do it using standard methods.<\/p>\n

“It really allows our engineers to draw on a much greater database of ideas,” Lightning Motors Corp. CEO Richard Hatfield told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

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“Where we would typically be limited by the engineers\u2019 experience, we can now draw on the generative design software\u2019s database of options.”<\/p>\n

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“We use the generative AI software to target a part we want to optimize, and then it\u2019s an interaction between the engineers and the software in looking at the iterations and choosing the best design,” Hatfield said.<\/p>\n

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The new swingarm is 20% lighter and also stronger than the traditional version. (Lightning Motorcycles)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also constructed of less metal, which is another goal of shifting to the tech.<\/p>\n

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“It reduces development costs and material costs by optimizing strength over weight,” Hatfield said.<\/p>\n

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Hatfield said the software is trained on the first principles of engineering, rather than existing products, so there isn’t any concern about violating intellectual property.<\/p>\n

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The first bikes with the swingarm are expected to be on sale by the end of this year. Lightning is a small manufacturer that doesn\u2019t release sales figures, but a report from Revzilla estimated that it delivered about two dozen of them in 2022.<\/p>\n

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Hatfield said the company is so pleased with how things are going so far that it is planning to expand the use of the generative AI system.<\/p>\n

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“From a structural, mechanical engineering perspective, this is probably about 80 to 90% of how we\u2019ll be developing them in a few years.”<\/p>\n

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