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Meet WildCat, The Galloping Robot Animal And Future Soldier's Companion (fastcompany.com)
7 points by RougeFemme on Oct 4, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments



You know this is incredibly impressive, but I still wonder what the practical use case is. I think traveling over rock and through dense forest might be easier with these, but how often do we really do that these days? We're involved in mostly desert warfare, and in terms of reliability, speed and defensibility against attack, you really can't beat a tank-style design.

Would be great for reaching remote areas of places like Colorado with heavy materials, though. In a couple years, these things could really assist with flood repair efforts.


I don't know how well the Boston Dynamics machines will cope with dust and fines but having similar robots on Mars or the Moon would be handy.


Mountains. Observation posts linked by foot trails. The film "Restrepo" shows this very well.


Now if only they make it crouch down and wiggle its ass before pouncing on something/one, it'll be perfect.




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