Unpublished Paper
Meet Boston Dynamics' LS3 – the latest robotic war machine
The Conversation: Science and Technology
(2012)
Abstract
On first viewing Boston Dynamics' latest creation, the LS3 (Legged Squad Support System), I could not help but be taken back to the AT-AT (All Terrain Armoured Transport) walker, as depicted in the Star Wars film The Empire Strikes Back. But it is the AT-TE (All Terrain Tactical Enforcer) walker that appears in Attack of the Clones which strikes the most eerie resemblance to the LS3 concept, as the two images below demonstrate.
Keywords
- drones,
- ground war,
- marines,
- armed forces,
- social implications,
- mechanical monsters,
- engineering,
- mules
Disciplines
Publication Date
October 10, 2012
Citation Information
Katina Michael. "Meet Boston Dynamics' LS3 – the latest robotic war machine" The Conversation: Science and Technology (2012) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kmichael/291/