GENERAL ELECTRIC WALKING TRUCK CYBERNETIC WALKING MACHINE TEST FOOTAGE RALPH MOSHER XD46984

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent film shows tests of the General Electric Walking Truck, also known as the Cybernetic Walking Machine or “CAM“. The footage dates to about 1965-69 and shows how the CAM could be used to pick up objects, move across uneven terrain, and even push or pull a large object (in this case a Jeep). The Walking Truck was a quadruped walking vehicle designed by G.E. engineer Ralph Mosher. The surviving prototype is now on display at the U.S. Army Transportation Museum in Fort Eustis, Virginia. Featuring a cab which could hold a human operator, the CAM weighed 3,000 pounds (1,400 kg) and could walk up to 5 miles per hour (8 km/h). According to Mosher, who also served as driver in many tests, the CAM was very taxing for operators to control, causing the program to never advance beyond the test phase. (Of course today quadruped robots like Big Dog and Quattroped are