{"id":3642,"date":"2009-09-17T03:00:55","date_gmt":"2009-09-17T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3642"},"modified":"2009-09-17T03:00:55","modified_gmt":"2009-09-17T08:00:55","slug":"dennis-cant-do-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3642","title":{"rendered":"Dennis Can&#039;t Do This"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hopper, that is<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/science\/nature\/8253807.stm\">Military robot &#8216;hops&#8217; over walls<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot &#8211; which is being developed for the US military &#8211; uses its four wheels to get around.<br \/>\nBut the Precision Urban Hopper can use a piston-actuated &#8220;leg&#8221; to launch it over obstacles such as walls or fences.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The ad in the video is longer than the video, but it&#8217;s worth the 30 seconds.  The slow-motion replay really needs the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.entertonement.com\/collections\/8864\/The-Six-Million-Dollar-Man\">bionic sound effect<\/a> from <em>The Six Million Dollar Man<\/em> to complete the experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopper, that is Military robot &#8216;hops&#8217; over walls Most of the time, the shoebox-sized robot &#8211; which is being developed for the US military &#8211; uses its four wheels to get around. But the Precision Urban Hopper can use a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3642\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}