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Kawasaki boldly revealed a hydrogen-powered, AI-equipped, fully rideable robotic horse during the Osaka Kansai Expo in Japan on April 4. Which is suspiciously close to April 1. Rest semi-assured, though, the robohorse, otherwise known as the Corleo Concept 01 to Kawasaki, is 100% real.

On Kawasaki’s website, the company’s images, videos, and descriptions are live as of April 7, cementing the idea that a two-person robotic horse straight out of Horizon Zero Dawn is legitimately in development. Hydrogen-fueled cells generate 150cc of power, allegedly pushing it to speeds over 50 mph.

Artificial intelligence makes it adaptable to various terrains, actively tracks map and topography data, and keeps the robot’s independently moving “limbs” operating in a way that keeps the rider(s) in a forward-facing position.

You can ride the robot horse at night, too

The Corleo’s webpage advertises a night mode too, that includes headlights and projecting “markers” onto the road to keep the rider looking ahead. Sticky rubber “hooves” absorb surface irregularities, letting the robot ride across grasslands, rocky terrain, and what Kawasaki calls “rubble fields.”

Like a real horse, the Corleo is meant to detect and adapt to a rider’s weight shifts thanks to sensors in the handlebars and stirrups.

Pricing or production information has yet to be announced, but it’s sure to be a while.

Readers had mixed feelings about Kaswaki’s concept

Since a lot of Corleo’s concept was presented to people with CGI videos and images, many assumed it was a complex April Fool’s joke. It didn’t stop people from wanting one, though.

“Yes, I understand this is a pie-in-the-sky thing, but I sure would love having one,” wrote a New Atlas reader.

Another doubted Kawasaki’s engineering.

“A robot of that size with a human on it COULDN’T POSSIBLY jump across that snowy chasm. The pressure on those TINY feet would break through the snow immediately and wouldn’t generate the required force to jump,” they wrote.

Someone else suspected AI.

“This is as real as hydrogen being the fuel of the future,” they wrote. “I mean, nice AI rendering, but that’s all this is.”

Watch Kawasaki’s video and see for yourself.

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