Kawasaki Robotic Goat That You Can Ride

Behold the Kawasaki Robotic Goat That You Can Ride and navigate through rough terrains. It is also an electric scooter for high speed travel.

When you have too many electric cars which is too mainstream, it is time to have something mechanical which does not rely solely on wheels. Introducing Kawasaki Robotic Goat that you can ride! We’re more or less still at the point of robotics when engineers are throwing anything at the wall and hoping to discover a design that sticks. Or at least, that seems like the clearest explanation for why Kawasaki designed a four-legged walking Ibex.

Kawasaki Robotic Goat That You Can Ride

For the uninitiated, an ibex is a species of wild goat—that can tote freight or passengers presuming neither are in much of a hurry. Officially revealed at the 2022 International Robot Exhibition (iREX) in Tokyo this past week, Bex is an offspring of Kawasaki’s Kaleido programme which, since 2015, has been focused on building bipedal humanoid robots.

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As is clear by watching every single blooper film that Boston Dynamics’ has published of its multi-million dollar Atlas robot sliding and falling, producing a bipedal robot that’s as agile and solid on two feet as a real human is no easy undertaking. That is why Bex was conjured by its designers. The experienced robotics professionals at Kawasaki were trying to invent a flexible bipedal robot that can easily navigate through any of those rough terrains like its real-life sibling. This amazing Kawasaki robotic goat that you can ride is undeniably a robot with wheels that is agile enough to balance itself on the ground at all times.

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Feet or Wheels?

When you need pace in your rideable Bex, it can lower its body and actually kneel on its 4 pairs of wheels to transform into an electric scooter. In this mode, it can take advantage of the smooth, paved terrain and glide effortlessly. But when terrain starts to grow uneven, the Bex can stand and manoeuvre on four highly-articulated legs utilising a stride that ensures at least half of them are touching the ground at any given time, substantially decreasing the balancing act it needs to execute.

It Can Transform Into an Electric Scooter

Watch the Kawasaki Robotic Goat In Action!

The Bex’s load capacity is rated at roughly 220 pounds, so in addition to hauling big objects, it can carry human passengers who guide the quadruped using a standard pair of handlebars. And acknowledging the limited appeal and utility of constructing this bot to look like a wild goat, Kawasaki has also built the upper half of the Bex to be totally modular. So clients who wish to focus on hauling freight can do away with the animal image altogether, while those seeing an opportunity to modernise their cattle ranches might perhaps go full equestrian with this robot and bring the cowpoke fully into the 21st century.