{"id":124176,"date":"2021-06-23T11:22:45","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-army-might-really-build-walking-war-machines"},"modified":"2021-06-23T11:22:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:22:45","slug":"the-army-might-really-build-walking-war-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/the-army-might-really-build-walking-war-machines","title":{"rendered":"The Army Might Really Build Walking War Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-army-might-really-build-walking-war-machines2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have given the all-clear.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A new study from U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) scientists reveals there\u2019s nothing stopping the military from producing walking combat vehicles\u2014at least from a power perspective, anyway. The research shows legs use essentially the same amount of power as wheels or tracks, so there\u2019s no disadvantage to using them.<\/p>\n<p>In the PLoS ONE study, scientists say both artificial and biological locomotion systems\u2014literally from 1 gram to 35-ton vehicles\u2014have approximately the same power requirements to move a unit of mass over land. Animals or machines using legs, wheels, or tracks use the same amount of energy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have given the all-clear. A new study from U.S. Army Research Lab (ARL) scientists reveals there\u2019s nothing stopping the military from producing walking combat vehicles\u2014at least from a power perspective, anyway. The research shows legs use essentially the same amount of power as wheels or tracks, so there\u2019s no disadvantage to using them. In [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}