Walking Truck
Experimental transport robot
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Interest in “Walking Truck” spiked on Wikipedia on 2026-07-21.
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- The Walking Truck or Pedipulator was an experimental quadruped walking vehicle created in 1965 by General Electric.
- The Walking Truck was controlled by a human operator positioned inside the machine, with human foot and hand motion coupled to the movements of robot legs.
- It alternatively bore the name CAM , an acronym for Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine .
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WikipediaThe Walking Truck or Pedipulator was an experimental quadruped walking vehicle created in 1965 by General Electric. It was intended for use by the United States Army and was designed by Ralph Mosher as a way to transport equipment over rough terrain. The Walking Truck was controlled by a human operator positioned inside the machine, with human foot and hand motion coupled to the movements of robot legs. Only one prototype of the Walking Truck was produced, which weighed about 3000 lb and failed to reach speeds greater than 5 mph. It alternatively bore the name CAM, an acronym for Cybernetic Anthropomorphous Machine. In 1968, Walter Cronkite covered the Walking Truck in a segment of The 20th Century.
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