Powered ambulance cot with an automated cot control system

(FIG. 1) A powered ambulance cot for transporting a patient above a surface, comprising: a support frame for supporting the patient above the surface; four legs, each leg having a wheel for supporting the cot on the surface; a pair of actuators, each actuator interconnects the support frame and a respective pair of the legs and effects changes in position of the support frame relative to the wheels of each respective pair of the legs; a motor controller which controls the pair of actuators individually to raise and lower said support frame with respect to the wheels of each respective pair of the legs according to a mode selection from a plurality of mode selections; and a graphical user interface (GUI) controller which, via an electrically connected graphical user interface (GUI), receives an input of the mode selection from among the plurality of mode selections and outputs a matching image on the GUI of the selected mode.