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It has four legs, eyes, and a body built to carry, with the ability to go wherever men can.

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The Legged Squad Support System is the new solution for overburdened troops

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who carry nearly 100 pounds of survival and protection gear in the field.

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This amount of squads like to move under cover and concealment.

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They do not want to move on roads.

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That tells you right away that if you're going to have a robotic platform,

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It must be able to go over logs, through streams."

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The Commandant of the Marine Corps, General James Amos, and Defense Advanced Research

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Projects Agency Director Arati Prabhakar saw a demonstration of the system at Joint Base

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Meyer Henderson Hall, Virginia, and learned about the 24-month initiative designed to

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refine and enhance the program.

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Now that you've got a capable platform, it's now taking the sensors, making them

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much more effective, they're already effective, but taking it to a new level so that not only

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it can perceive the world around it better, but it can interact with the Marines better.

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So that's what you're going to see over the next 24 months is how do you make it

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more effective in the hands of those Marines out in the field.

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Once complete, this beast of burden can take the load off troops, allowing them to focus

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on their mission.

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So everything we do, we endeavor to lighten the load, but where LS3 is particularly effective

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in that regard is the fact that it takes equipment directly off that Marine's back, whether it

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be mortar base plates, whether it be ammunition, spare ammunition, whether it be packs, a lot

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of different areas.

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Corporal Christopher Baines reporting from Joint Base Meyer Henderson.