15 Years Before "Star Wars", Take A Look At The Pedipulator The Army Tested
Saturday, July 2, 2011 - 18:00
in Mathematics & Economics
Long before "Star Wars", science-fiction had talked of robot walkers. In "War of the Worlds", even aliens from Mars had giant, mechanized tripeds and they got killed by a few germs. But the real world worked on them also. Now on display at the US Army Transportation Musem at Fort Eustis is GE’s Pedipulator, or “Walking Truck", which was developed for the U.S. Army in the mid-‘60s. This quadroped first lumbered through testing paces Pittsfield, Massachusetts, circa 1962.read more