Kawasaki Heavy Industries has pulled the covers off perhaps the most outrageous concept vehicle we’ve ever seen. The Corleo is a two-seater quadruped robot you steer with your body, capable of picking its way through rough terrain thanks to AI vision.
It is also – and don’t let anyone fool you here – absolute codswallop. The video is pure CGI, and even as a concept, this is as blue-sky as they come.
They evidently have a demo model that can “stand and pose” so that’s neat I guess, but sadly it is not real beyond that.
Companies don’t need to make products for customers. They just need to make ideas for investors.
Horizon Zero Dawn vibes with this one.
That thing is neither built like nor does it move like, a horse. It’s more cat-like or dog-like than anything.
Which is fine, someday we can pretend to be He-Man, I guess
“It’s a great pity the exhaust port isn’t where a horse’s is”
Why tho
People would try to fuck it, prompting law suits…
Kawasaki vs. John Doe, robo-horse fucker
How many horse power does it have?
Hard to say because it’s a concept of an idea at this point. It will probably never come to be.
Just its own.
Kind of hard to think of a use case for this. Not sure I’d ever trust a piece of tech that big, heavy, and expensive to just transport me into unpaved wilderness far from any of the resources it runs on.
A horse, or something built around the same general plan, was coming down the street at a hard gallop. Its hooves did not make the pocking noise of iron horseshoes. Bud realized it was a chevaline - a four-legged robot thingy.
Neal Stephenson at it again.
🎵I’m a cowboy… On a steel horse I ride.🎵
That’s probably the least efficient vehicle they could have made that wasn’t a pogo stick.
Put it on a wheelchair
This is so cool! Finally humans can ride on something! Goodbye walking, hello moving quicker than walking!
…what do you mean Horses are real and cheaper? What do you mean, cars are also real and cheaper? Trains? Busses? WHAT?!
Are they trying to win an award for the dumbest robot?
