{"id":2443,"date":"2013-01-18T20:01:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-19T01:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2020-08-17T17:53:29","modified_gmt":"2020-08-17T17:53:29","slug":"darpa-ls3-quadruped-plays-follow-the-leader-through-mud-puddles-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/01\/18\/darpa-ls3-quadruped-plays-follow-the-leader-through-mud-puddles-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"DARPA LS3 quadruped plays follow the leader through mud puddles and more"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gizmag.com\/new-ls3-quadruped-robot\/24098\/\">GizMag<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ben Coxworth<br \/>\nSeptember 11, 2012<\/p>\n<p>Fans of freaky-looking robots will already be familiar with DARPA\u2019s quadruped Legged Squad Support System, or LS3 (although it\u2019s also known as Big Dog by its builder, Boston Dynamics). Yesterday, two prototypes of an improved version of the LS3 were demonstrated, and DARPA has posted the video to show off what\u2019s new.<\/p>\n<p>The basic purpose of the LS3 is to serve as a sort of pack mule, carrying heavy gear for troops over rugged, varying terrain. It can follow them autonomously, and respond to verbal and visual commands.<\/p>\n<p>Among the improvements in the new version of the robot is reduced operating noise \u2013 it is approximately one-tenth as loud as the original version, allowing soldiers walking next to it to carry on a regular conversation.<\/p>\n<p><code><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/40gECrmuCaU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/code><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From GizMag By Ben Coxworth September 11, 2012 Fans of freaky-looking robots will already be familiar with DARPA\u2019s quadruped Legged Squad Support System, or LS3 (although it\u2019s also known as Big Dog by its builder, Boston Dynamics). Yesterday, two prototypes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/2013\/01\/18\/darpa-ls3-quadruped-plays-follow-the-leader-through-mud-puddles-and-more\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robot-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5248,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions\/5248"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dankohn.info\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}