{"id":687,"date":"2006-04-21T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vallentyne.com\/blog\/?p=687"},"modified":"2006-04-21T10:57:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-21T10:57:16","slug":"in-the-future-robot-dogs-will-walk-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/in-the-future-robot-dogs-will-walk-us\/","title":{"rendered":"In the future, robot dogs will walk us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A robotics company is showing off it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/060409_robot_sherpa.html\">prototype of a military dog<\/a> that will accompany soldiers into the field, carrying gear and trotting alongside the soldiers.  It&#8217;s an incredible thing, really.  The article includes a link to a video of the thing that is cool, but borders on creepy (the file is also huge, so be warned).  For one, they give the thing a hard kick sideways and it quickly recovers and keeps on moving, which is really cool and a mean feat of engineering.  The problem I have with it is the gait with which it moves.  It&#8217;s stiff and mechanical, of course, but there&#8217;s a certain quality about it trotting around with those black socks on that really gives me the chills.  They look like an old man&#8217;s legs&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A robotics company is showing off it&#8217;s prototype of a military dog that will accompany soldiers into the field, carrying gear and trotting alongside the soldiers. It&#8217;s an incredible thing, really. The article includes a link to a video of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/21\/in-the-future-robot-dogs-will-walk-us\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apocalypse-soon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piGNU-b5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vallentyne.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}