Over the last five years, the Tokyo Motor Show that has been the main hub for Japan’s major motorcycle manufacturers to introduce their experimental and concept vehicles into the public domain, and so it appears to be the case again in 2017.

Well, for Yamaha at last, which will have the Motoroid on its stand this week, an experimental motorcycle which “employs artificial intelligence and explores the feasibility of concepts for creating new forms of personal mobility in which the rider resonates harmoniously with machine”.