Carl “Glen” Henshaw, a roboticist at the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Naval Center for Space Technology and principal investigator with the Meso-scale Robotic Locomotion Initiative — or MeRLIn — discusses the program’s efforts to produce quadriped robots that can scout enclosed spaces and travel across rough terrain to scout before troops are sent in, future capabilities, design, stability and power-management challenges, and much more during a wide-ranging, April 24, 2018, interview with Defense & Aerospace Report Editor Vago Muradian, conducted at the US Naval Research Laboratory in Washington.