Riding Robots: A Foolproof Way That Robots Can Save The Environment (and also become a new profitable industry)

People ditch your motorcars and ride robot horses instead; ditch your motorcycles and ride bicycles peddled by robot legs; ditch your aeroplanes and ride upon the backs of giant robot pterodactyls or robot bats; ditch your speed boats and ride the backs of robot dolphins.

The age of travelling upon Robot animals is upon us which will spell the doom of the internal combustion engine. Petroleum might instead be used only to power electricity generators to charge robot animal batteries but it will not be required by the vehicles themselves which would mean less consumption of fossil fuels.

And Robot horses would not require motorways, they could travel, just like horses, across country so you could cut down the number of motorways and let those areas return to nature.

Imagine riding your robot horse, being able to leap over obstacles like a show jumper, being able to go up hills and across rivers, being able to travel across snow and ice and basically handle any terrain that an animal with legs can.

Imagine armed cavalry regiments riding upon the backs of robot horses; or armed robot camel regiments riding across the desert (perhaps powered by the solar power of the desert sun) or an airforce of robot pterodactyls or giant robot bees or robot hummingbirds.

But not only that, robot animals could travel both horizontally and vertically; sitting on the back of a robot spider (a spider rider) you could travel across the ground and up the sides of buildings and mountains or if that’s not feasible then ride on the back of a robomonkey that can climb buildings and mountains just like King Kong. Rescue services will be able to scale any surface riding on a vehicle with monkey limbs and, rather than travelling up and down in dangerous elevators, people could ride monkey robots up and down buildings.

Imagine trying to cross a ravine without a bridge. A difficult problem for a motorcar but not for a man on a robomonkey, he simple fires a grappling hook across the ravine and rides the robo-monkey as it swings across the ravine.

And ofcourse Robot- animals can look any way you want them to, little girls could have pink robo-ponies with unicorn horns if they wanted.

Plus, ofcourse, Robot animals would travel much faster than real animals so they really would be as practical as travelling by motorcar.

In fact I expect to see the historic day when a robot animal vehicle races against a motorvehicle and the robot animal wins and then a generation of young thrill seekers will discover the sport of Robotanimal Racing, racing both horizontally and vertically on the back of a robomonkey across the city, leaping from rooftop to rooftop.

So car manufacturers, forget churning out yet more boring boxes on wheels and start making robot animals for us to ride upon, for the environment and just because the age of the Mechanimal  is going to be so much fun.