CORLEO

CORLEO is a hydrogen-powered, four-legged personal mobility robot from Kawasaki Heavy Industries in Japan. Unlike inspection quadrupeds, it is a rideable machine, a concept for adaptive all-terrain travel that a person mounts and steers through natural body movement across rough outdoor landscapes.

The Kawasaki CORLEO reads its rider through pressure sensors on the foot plates and handlebars that detect weight shifts, while terrain sensors build a real-time environmental map and inertial measurement units track motion. Electric motors embedded in each leg drive multi-degree-of-freedom joints, and an engine-generator supplies electric power rather than driving wheels directly. Its closed-source AI handles real-time balance, gait adjustment and rider-input interpretation, with terrain prediction, path planning and an information display to keep the rider informed.

Kawasaki frames CORLEO around research and search and rescue, where a stable, intuitive legged vehicle could travel where wheeled transport fails and carry a rider across debris, slopes or wilderness. As a forward-looking legged mobility platform, this quadruped robot explores the future of personal off-road transport and human-carrying legged systems.

Nexon System supports CORLEO-class platforms across Southeast Asia, providing commissioning, control and task configuration, sensor and system integration, and operator training with ongoing support. For research groups and organisations evaluating rideable legged mobility, we help assess the technology, plan controlled trials and integrate it with your existing programmes. Talk to Nexon to discuss a CORLEO research or evaluation programme.