I AM IRON MULE

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The word awesome, properly used, is reserved for precisely this sort of thing. The control systems work, the navigation ability (really shown well through videos for some of Boston Dynamics' other 'bots), the rugged hardware, the responsive hydraulics... all make this thing incredible. I have a vision for this thing.

• First, we put a muffler on it and let it be a pack mule and carry things for our infantry. Things like mortars.


• Then we give it nunchucks and and a blood-curdling battle cry and send it on a Chuck Norris style vigilante crime fighting spree through run down neighborhoods.


• Then we give it a flamethrower to clear entrenched enemies. Because sometimes you need people over there to be on fire, and a way to get that fire over to them.


• Then we give it a gatling gun to end global hunger... by turning terrorists into hamburger.

All semi-joking aside, this technology certainly has obstacles to overcome before becoming tactical hardware, I'm sure, but in our lifetimes we will see things like this used as pack mules, kicking in doors, and other things we cannot even imagine.