I love the jump across the crevasse. Like, if its feet slip (which they will on snow like that), you die.

The word you’re searching for is indeed “chevaline,” and I will absolutely buy one if it doesn’t cost a truly insane amount of money.

I want to remark on Kawasaki publishing what appears to be actual vision, about what their larger plan for this would be:

So many glitzy prototypes are announced where it’s a neat aesthetic but come with huge question marks for how it would be used. Usually that sort of marketing comes with a tagline like “imagine a world where…” but what they really mean is for the viewer to imagine a use-case because they themselves could not.

Now, that’s not to say this grand plan of theirs is grounded in reality, but coming from an established company in Japan – a country with very mountainous terrain – I can see what they’re aiming at. Even without worldwide appeal, the domestic Japanese market could make use of this chevaline – another comment used this word, and I love it – and it would indeed make for an interesting visitor experience.

That said, I can’t ignore the obvious comparison to Boston Dynamics’s various dog-shaped military platforms. But I view this more like a supped-up ATV than as an AI predator robot. But I will note that a different arm of Kawasaki conglomerate does do military contract work.

Overall, very cool but probably won’t displace wheeled vehicles where roads are already available. Would like to see a production run.

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Buy a horee ?