The military’s creepily life-like robotic pack mule can now trot along at five miles per hour — and trudge through mud as it goes uphill. Earlier footage of BigDog, the mechanical quadruped ...

U.S. military advisors could be taking a self-driving pack mule back to Afghanistan with them on their next deployment. The Small Multipurpose Equipment Transport (SMET), a semi-autonomous supply ...

How the history of the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) relates to the Army's last pack mule units is an interesting story, traceable to the rapidly changing military technology ...

A butt for dreary jests, a homely beast to look upon, the U.S. mule—4,500,000 strong—is again coming into his own. Farmers, threatened with a tractor shortage, are buying mules. The U.S. Army ...

On Monday, military research group DARPA showed off its “Legged Squad Support System (LS3)” -- military speak for a robotic pack mule.

The US military has reportedly shelved development of its robotic pack mule — the Boston Dynamics-built Legged Squad Support System or LS3. According to a report from Military.com, there are no ...

This self-driving vehicle is a robotic pack mule for the military. It can follow alongside humans and carry more than 2,000 pounds of cargo.

Over the weekend, the U.S. Marine Corps showed off one of its newest toys, a robotic mule called the Legged Squat Support System, or LS3, at a multinational military exercise in Hawaii. LS3, also ...

The Army and Marines are both pursuing an entirely new vehicle with an ancient inspiration: the humble mule. The services are at various stages of progress, but they all share the same goal—to ...

U.S. Military Academy Mascot Mule, pumps up the cadets, during the 119th Army-Navy Game at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 8, 2018. (Spc. James Harvey/Army) West Point cadets ...