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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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FASCINATING!
So how does this work in a McDonald’s?
I guess someone was trying to solidify the term “goat roper.”
wy69
Was anybody even asking for one of these?
That's nothing.
You ought to see what the Qtards are doing with kids these days.
I had a Kawasaki 175 dirt bike years ago. It did sort of ride like a goat.
Zero Dawn was fun.
A rich person’s toy
That’s quite a step backwards from the motorcycles.
Oh well, whatever gets your goat.
It certainly has get up and goat!
Very cool, they should get some good patents and GoatsOfWar experience
Bet you can’t get one bar of soap out of it.
I used to think that the whole notion of “goat sex” in Muslim countries was a bit of imaginative Western xenophobia.
Then I spent a little time in the Middle East.
it is not a bit of imaginative xenophobia,
sadly.
Maybe the loons who sculpted the Satanic goat statue to stick in courthouses and state Capitol buildings.
As it happens, the wild ibex, which is where the robot’s name “Bex” comes from, is an inhabitant of the Middle East. The Arabs love to hunt them and as I recall they are pretty scarce because of it.
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