{"id":162,"date":"2008-03-18T17:51:16","date_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/162"},"modified":"2008-03-18T17:51:16","modified_gmt":"2008-03-19T01:51:16","slug":"walking-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/archives\/162","title":{"rendered":"Walking Robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was very impressed by this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww\">walking robot<\/a> (that link is to a video on YouTube).  Watching it gave me a very strong feeling of &#8220;the future is now.&#8221;  No doubt there are many hurdles to overcome, but it sure seems like we could all have a walking robot pack horse in ten years (well, those of us with enough money).<\/p>\n<p>Since this is being funded by the defense department, it seems even more likely that these will be sent into combat.  It&#8217;s impossible to argue against protecting a soldier.  But it&#8217;s also hard for me to be comfortable with something that makes warfare easier.  Even if we believe that our government is completely trustworthy, which we don&#8217;t, other governments will be able to buy these too.  Put some armor on this thing and add a couple of guns and its even better than a tank: it can go lots more places, and it doesn&#8217;t require a driver.  Scary stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that&#8217;s probably how the ancient Egyptians felt when they first saw mounted soldiers coming at them.  Military technology marches ever on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was very impressed by this walking robot (that link is to a video on YouTube). Watching it gave me a very strong feeling of &#8220;the future is now.&#8221; No doubt there are many hurdles to overcome, but it sure seems like we could all have a walking robot pack horse in ten years (well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.airs.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}