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.
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 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.
“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
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.🎵
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.
That’s probably the least efficient vehicle they could have made that wasn’t a pogo stick.
Put it on a wheelchair