We can get behind pretty much any technology that makes the real world a bit more like the Star Wars universe, so Nissan's inclusion of a friendly, dashboard-based robot was a real selling point in this video for the company's latest concept car, the Pivo2.

"We have data that happy drivers' accident rates are drastically lower than depressed ones, so this robot stays there to make sure the driver is happy always," said Nissan chief designer Masato Inoue of the R2D2-esque 'bot.

The surprisingly endearing dashbot, Pivo-kun, is just one of a handful of extremely cool innovations that make the video worth watching, including the car's parallel-parking-free, 360-degree cabin-turning radius.