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Kawasaki Reveals Four-Legged Robot You Can Ride Like a Horse

by uberdru on 4/5/25, 8:38 PM with 25 comments

  • by outer_web on 4/5/25, 9:03 PM

    > A company spokesperson indicated that Corleo is a long-term vision, with a potential market release by 2050.

    The video looks all cgi. Headline bait.

  • by nico on 4/6/25, 12:29 AM

    As mentioned in other comments, this is just a concept, they haven’t built it

    But it’s a pretty cool concept. Video here:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8TUTp0_D-I

  • by AngryData on 4/6/25, 3:13 AM

    This is just CGI of an idea somebody had, no part of this exists yet. Its no different than if some random grad student made a video of a flying car concept that they thought of while binging old sci-fi.
  • by runjake on 4/6/25, 4:03 AM

    Many of the comments are getting this wrong. This video is CGI-generated. However, a prototype exists but all it can reportedly do is stand up and balance itself at present.
  • by sebmellen on 4/5/25, 9:10 PM

    "Hydrogen powered..." Yeesh.
  • by bastawhiz on 4/6/25, 4:51 AM

    > The company has confirmed the use of a 150cc hydrogen motor that generates electricity to drive the robot’s four legs.

    Is hydrogen a better way to store electricity than just batteries? This seems awfully roundabout.

  • by mikestew on 4/5/25, 10:13 PM

    My dreams of a real-life Giddyup Buttercup are finally coming true…in 25 years. Hydrogen powered? Seems about as realistic as a Fallout-style nuke-powered one.
  • by mgnn on 4/6/25, 2:55 AM

    The Chevaline! It's probably possible to build The Primer, and the John Zaibatsu doesn't seem very outlandish too.

    But guys, that book wasn't a manual.

  • by ilrwbwrkhv on 4/6/25, 1:25 AM

    This is the world that I want to live in. Where I can gallop on a robotic horse and drink juice which heals my tumour but come in different colors.
  • by boznz on 4/5/25, 10:41 PM

    Forget the flying car. I want one!
  • by treetalker on 4/5/25, 11:13 PM

    Should go into production around the same time that the Primer does.
  • by zimlu on 4/6/25, 1:52 AM

    I can see this evolving into a sport like the moto gp
  • by patrickhogan1 on 4/5/25, 9:59 PM

    Hydrogen powered? Where do you refuel it.
  • by kazinator on 4/5/25, 10:53 PM

    Jumps shark at hydrogen.
  • by vrighter on 4/7/25, 2:32 PM

    Cos a hydrogen engine is the best way to generate electricity. Given that the entire vehicle is around the same size as the fuel tank in a pickup truck, and hydrogen's very low volumetric energy density.

    Make the thing, then try to sell it, ffs.

  • by more_corn on 4/6/25, 12:57 AM

    Hydrogen is bullshit.