00:27Welcome
00:28to the Kahuku Training Area in Hawaii, where the future of infantry logistics was once
00:33put to the ultimate test. The Marine Corps Warfighting Lab field-tested the Legged Squad
00:39Support System, or LS-3. Developed by Boston Dynamics and DARPA, this four-legged beast,
00:46nicknamed Cujo by the troops, was designed to be a robotic pack animal. Capable of carrying
00:52400 pounds of gear across rugged terrain that vehicles simply couldn't reach, the LS-3 followed
00:57Marines autonomously using advanced computer vision and GPS. Watch as Lance Corporal Brandon
01:04Diekman operates this experimental tech during one of the largest maritime exercises in history.
01:25Just working with robotics, it's not really something that I envisioned doing at any point,
01:31or working with any kind of experimental technology, and just doing it is different.
01:39We took it, the very first day, we took it through some thicker brush to the 81 platoon,
01:44and that's something that certainly the ITV would not have been able to go through.
01:54A lot of people don't think that it would be able to handle the terrain that it does. I'd say
02:00around
02:00like 70 or 80 percent of what we can go through, it can actually get through. To be able to
02:07say that
02:07I was one of the first groups that actually tested it and brought it to the field on one of
02:14the bigger
02:14training exercises for the first time. It would be pretty surreal.
02:55You guess , you wouldn't do this when it was a edge. Deixa the average system of exponents.
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