Posted on 03/15/2022 5:03:46 PM PDT by martin_fierro
Kawasaki, best known for its motorcycles, debuted a four-legged rideable robot at the world's largest robot trade show last week.
The robot, Bex, was created by the company's Kaleido program, which has been working on developing humanoid robots in Japan since 2015. Spectators got their first view of the robot at the 2022 International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo.
Videos from the event show the dexterity of the goat-shaped robot, which can alternate its limbs like Boston Dynamic's robot dog. The Bex can also lower itself and transport itself on wheels — a move that the program's lead engineer, Masayuki Soube, said could help provide a short-term solution to the balance issues robots face.
The video also shows a demonstrator riding astride the Bex, using the robot as a type of vehicle. Riders can control the robot via handlebars. Though, the company did not give any specifics on the robot's speed capacity, the video shows the robot goat moving at a slow pace.
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If they can get it to run on grass, poison ivy, and other weeds, it might be useful in this inflationary age.
I’m playing Forbidden West now. I think I like it better.
Same type of storyline and open world?
Judging from the E-Stop on it’s left shoulder, I think they must still be working out the bugs.
Keeps the muslims from raping them.
Why did Kawasaki drop the 455cu V-8 for an electric motor? And why is Kawasaki making Pontiacs?
Yeah—actual sequel and continuing story from Zero Dawn.
In case you wondered, here’s the Japanese robot goat on Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApzHdofI0kE
Just. Why?
Where’s the brake light mounted? Don’t ask
That is one of the dumbest things I’ve ever seen. LOL
Hi.
I hope you are doing well.
I pray that I don’t have to kill one of these things one day.
I don’t have a 40w plasma rifle yet.
5.56mm
No go say 17 Edelbrock®
And 2 Holley Sniper 4 Barrel Fuel Injections®.
In this day & age we will dispense with any reference to or of manual or automatic trany's.
(The inane crap idiots fester over)
Today’s heretic is tomorrow’s prophet.
Despite vowing to never do so, Dodge is phasing out the Charger and Challenger lines by 2024 and making electric muscle cars.
Do we even want to live in a world without Hemi powered drones, screaming down the boulevard?!?
“eMuscle”
*gag*
[I have a suggestion for renaming the eHellcat. Guess it.]
One electric bike is worlds fastest outside that Kawasaki modern H2R
Which is supposedly track only
My first bike was a 74 H2
Purple
A beast I tricked her out
11 or so seconds
Handled like piss
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