Kawasaki brought the Corleo to EICMA as a rideable four-legged vehicle classified by the company as a Robotic Multi-legged Vehicle, or RMV. It is far removed from a conventional motorcycle: instead of wheels, the concept uses four legs and is intended to deal with varying terrain. Kawasaki is targeting full commercialisation by 2035, but the machine displayed at EICMA was a full-scale mock-up rather than a working production vehicle.

The control layout owes more to horseback riding than to a normal motorcycle. The rider sits on a saddle, places their feet in mechanical stirrups and directs the vehicle by shifting body weight. Kawasaki says the Corleo’s stability and agility will draw on more than half a century of motorcycle technology and manufacturing experience. The result is an attempt to transfer a familiar riding principle to a completely different type of platform.

A 150cc hydrogen engine

Kawasaki’s plan calls for the Corleo to use electricity generated by a 150cc hydrogen engine. The hydrogen canisters are intended to be positioned at the rear. This is not simply another motorcycle layout, but a separate proposal for personal mobility and off-road exploration, built around a different vehicle architecture and a different relationship between rider and machine.

Kawasaki first showed the Corleo at the 2025 Osaka Expo. Development is being handled by the SAFE ADVENTURE Business Development Team, which reports directly to Yasuhiko Hashimoto, president and chief executive officer of Kawasaki Heavy Industries. Shigemi Tanaka, managing director of Kawasaki Motors Europe, places the project within the broader SAFE ADVENTURE concept and connects it with the pursuit of a carbon-neutral future that preserves personal freedom. Kawasaki Motors Italy hosted the booth and helped make the EICMA display possible.

The 2035 objective leaves a long development window for a project that is still in progress. For now, the Corleo is best understood as a research direction: Kawasaki is exploring how motorcycle engineering and the body-control principles of horseback riding could work together in an electric, four-legged vehicle. Its eventual form will depend on the development work leading towards the commercialisation target.