Next Future Transportation · self-driving bus or shuttle
Autonomous modular pod
Small self-driving passenger pods designed to join together while moving; Dubai showed them as a possible future transit mode.
- Price
- —Price not published
- Autonomy
- SupervisedHow it runs
- Driverless
- TestingDriverless tests only
- Fleet
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Range
- —Not published
Why it matters
A prototype vehicle from Next Future Transportation.
Real-world use
Demonstrated with Dubai's Roads and Transport Authority in February 2018.
Timeline
- Released
- Not yet
Maker
Next Future TransportationCompanyHow it drives
Fleet and city figures move fast; each carries its date and who reported it.
- Driverless status
- Driverless tests only
- Where it runs
- Dubai (demonstration, 2018)
Public attention
How much public attention Autonomous modular pod gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- No recent press stories listed yet
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-14; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Supervised. Works by itself while a person watches and steps in.
From the maker
Autonomous modular pod is the only vehicle from Next Future Transportation in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not publishedPrice not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Autonomous modular podNext Future Transportation | No public photo yetWe only show photos we're allowed to useMooBusMooVitaSame job: passenger shuttle · Both on wheels · Both in development |
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| First shown | 2018-02 | 2021 |
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Sources
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