A group of University of Minnesota Duluth engineering students has spent two semesters designing, building and refining a "robotic pack mule" that could be used by the military. Colby Carlson rides ...

DARPA has released the first video of its robot Legged Squad Support System (LS3) walking untethered and in the wild. Scroll down and watch in awe as a robotic quadruped scales a rocky, forested hill ...

Today a rather cryptic release from 5D Robotics hinted at a growing trend in military research: rather than finding new and innovative ways to strap weight to our human soldiers, how about we just ...

Designed as a robotic pack-mule capable of carrying heavy loads across terrain too rough for vehicles, Boston Dynamics’ Big Dog now has an arm appendage where a head would normally be. Using ...

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We've already seen how DARPA's Legged Squad Support System (or LS3 for short) can manage itself on rugged terrain, and the robot's latest demonstration shows off its ability to follow a person ...

The US military has field-tested a robotic pack mule called BigDog. Also known as LS3 or Legged Squad Support System, the invention helped marines transport equipment across mixed terrain at the Rim ...

Boston Dynamics has just received a serious injection of cash to upgrade its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) pack mule. The challenge now is to make it quieter and resistant to small arms fire. Yeah ...

The unmanned drones the U.S. military employs are just the tip of the iceberg as far as its ambitions with robot technology are concerned. (See this demo video of a Starship Troopers-style exoskeleton ...

We've been following DARPA's development of the Legged Squad Support System (LS3) for over a year now, and the agency showed off some new functionality in a YouTube video posted today. First off, the ...