Japan’s high-tech maker Hitachi unveils the new mobility robot “Ropits” (Robot for Personal Intelligent Transport System) in Tsukuba in Ibaraki prefecture on March 12, 2013. The one man mobility robot can pick-up and drop off a passenger autonomously, while the vehicle can be controled by a joystick controler in the cockpit. AFP PHOTO / Yoshikazu TSUNO (Photo credit should read YOSHIKAZU TSUNO/AFP/Getty Images)