Move over, there’s a new four-legged robot in town. Meet Kawasaki’s Bex. Introduced at the International Robot Show in Tokyo last week, Bex is a four-legged robot confusingly modeled after the Ibex, a wild goat native to parts of Eurasia and Africa.
Bex out of the company’s Kaleido program, which has been working on bipeds since 2015. During that project, Kawasaki engineers decided to build a robot that could move quickly. on the ground and navigate difficult terrain. As you can see from the video discovered by GizmodoBex has a set of wheels on its knees, allowing it to move faster on smooth surfaces than the ice speed it travels at when walking.
Bex can carry about 220 pounds of cargo. In addition to shipping construction materials and the like, Kawasaki envisions conducting inspections of industrial sites remotely, just as Spot did at Hyundai. . So the top half of the Bex is completely modular, so it doesn’t have to look like a goat. But if you ask us, what kind of monster wouldn’t want a goat guarding their factory?
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