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Very impressive engineering with incredible potential. Can't wait to see 4th or 5th Gen. But right now the prototype looks extremely vulnerable. I don't see it as a viable alternative or a practical replacement for a pack mule or a llama for many years, so I was surprised the article mentioned it was being "deployed" to A-stan. To do what?
DARPA needs to continue funding robotics, but this is a perfect example of reaching that edge where high tech meets stoneage tech...and sometimes the same things that make something so amazing are also the same things that make it worthless in a combat environment. I'm not from the old school that says high tech is bad...I'm from the school that says use a real llama for high altitude humping instead of trying to invent a mechanical llama. And wake me up when your mechanical llama surpasses my real llama in its ability to perform the assigned tasks. I can tell you one thing: your go-cart engine will run out of gas before my llama does.
DARPA needs to continue funding robotics, but this is a perfect example of reaching that edge where high tech meets stoneage tech...and sometimes the same things that make something so amazing are also the same things that make it worthless in a combat environment. I'm not from the old school that says high tech is bad...I'm from the school that says use a real llama for high altitude humping instead of trying to invent a mechanical llama. And wake me up when your mechanical llama surpasses my real llama in its ability to perform the assigned tasks. I can tell you one thing: your go-cart engine will run out of gas before my llama does.
