Because of course they are.
AI generated video here:
NGL - I kinda want to run around on an AI robot panther. Can we get 4 more, paint them different colors, and merge them into a giant robot? That would be sweet!
Wasn’t the ATV invented because it covered most off-road situations to get around quicker?
Forget about Akira I want to look like POWER RANGER
Was wondering when this would be a thing
Finally
Worse horses
I want a cyborg horse that can be ridden like a quad bike.
This is a concept for a hydrogen powered robot for 2050. There is no shot they’re developing this and even if they are it’s literally a quarter of a century from now. This is just marketing BS.
There is a physical model, but definitely not rideable, looks like it just barely leans up and down, but they did get something real to display:
Giddyup Buttercup is gonna sue for patent infringement.
Bet it sucks to ride tbh. I cannot imagine that being more comfortable than a motorcycle of any kind. There has to be better ways for rough terrain than reinventing the wheel. Bet the investors love it though so I suppose mission accomplished.
Why not? Our legs are already better than any wheel could ever get. Why not apply this to robots given they can be good enough
Because ambulation and passenger transportation aren’t the same thing otherwise the wings on planes would flap like a birds. As a passenger you’re gong to be very aware of the movements and it’s going to feel like shit.
If airplane wings could flap they absolutely would. Our biological equivalent is objectively better than any mechanical tech we have right now. It’s really hard to beat millions of years of evolution.
You can very easily smooth out passenger’s position same way a horse’s head feels comfortable on top of a horse.
Suspension exist, and if horses had built in suspension systems we wouldn’t have stopped using them.
Good riddens
I’m so angry I have to upvote this.
I kind of don’t know what to say 😳
I’m sorry but we already have horses. Things we don’t have which should be ridable are things like spiders, mice, sausages, millipedes, cats etc. Make one of those!
edit: looks like it walks more like a cat than a horse. I guess we’re getting a cat.
I’m surprised you didn’t also mention ostriches and really fast snails.
I’m off to work out the engineering for a millipede-kielbasa robo-hybrid.
That’s what I was thinking. 2nd thought: Does it come in green?
It’s a Kawasaki. So yes, yes it will
I can’t wait to ride this shit into battle.
Monkey paw curls
“…it is now the 12th year of the 2nd American Civil war. The 3rd Roboticized Cavalry of Free America rode yesterday onto Texan soil, assisting Mexican forces in deterring Trumpanic Raiders from the fledging Mexican territory. Casualties were moderate, but sustainable…”
I’m waiting for the laser sword as a standard option. It’s always a bad idea to buy the first model anyway, and you know it’s coming. I mean who in their right mind rides a robot horse without a light sabre?
I’d just like a nice laser naginata, and never mind the horse.
So imagine far in the future scholars discussing, how heavy cavalry revolutionized XXI century warfare.
TBH something really useful would look more like a “General Grievous mode” exoskeleton.
Lightsabers would be good too.
I assume once equipped for warfare they’ll be packing like a 20mm cannon on the undercarriage, and crap out landmines.
Spitting out drones.
A cannon is good, but a vibro-pike like the old days would do too, imagine a robotic lancer charge at some terrified Muslim idiots.
That video was pretty janky, I thought for sure it wouldn’t be direct from Kawasaki but yeah…
Someone fed the concept into an AI video generator, proclaimed a 2050 target date, so absolutely far enough away this will be forgotten by the time everyone realizes that this was zero actual effort towards anything.
So now AI lets marketing folks make their completely going nowhere idea into a substantial concept video casually…
How long until Voltron?
Jesus fucking christ. These are horses, not lions!
