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Motor, Kia take 6 Red Dot honors, including top prize for MobED concept
By Jhoo Dong-chan, The Korea Times - Hyundai
Motor and affiliate Kia said they won six awards at the Red Dot Award: Design
Concept 2026, including the event's top prize, for a mobile robot platform
called MobED Urban Hopper & Golf.
The Red Dot Award, organized by
Germany's Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen, is considered one of the world's
three major design awards, recognizing outstanding work each year in product
design, brand and communication design, and design concepts.
MobED Urban Hopper & Golf received
the "Best of Best" award in the design concept category and was also
named a finalist for "Luminary," the top overall prize in that
category. MobED is a mobile robot platform that has separately received a CES
Innovation Award in January and Red Dot and iF Design Award honors earlier this
year for product design.
The Urban Hopper & Golf concept
pairs the MobED platform with interchangeable top modules. The Urban Hopper
version is a scooter designed for maneuvering through crowded city streets and
narrow alleys, while the Golf version uses autonomous driving and
user-following technology to navigate golf course terrain and serve as a caddie
during a round.
Five other entries also won awards:
Hyundai's Concept THREE, envisioning an expansion of the Ioniq lineup into
smaller electric vehicles, and CRATER, an off-road concept tied to the brand's
XRT trim; Genesis's Magma GT and X Scorpio, high-performance concepts inspired
by the brand's design philosophy; and Kia's Vision Meta Turismo, built around
the brand's "Opposites United" design language.
"This result reflects the design
philosophy and vision each of our brands brings to the future," a Hyundai
Motor Group official said.
