We apologize, this video has expired. Snake-like robots are hardy, maneuverable and perfect for trips into extremely cramped hazardous environments. Take, for instance, a nuclear power plant on the ...

Engineers from Johns Hopkins have looked to how snakes move around to inform the design of a nimble new robot. It is hoped that the development could lead to search and rescue bots able to tackle all ...

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Blend the Japanese folding technique of Kirigami with an elastomer actuator, and what have you got? A locomoting snake robot that can huff around its own girth with no strings attached! That’s exactly ...

The Carnegie Mellon snake robot has finally mastered the art of slithering up a sandy slope. One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes could inspire new technologies for robots that could ...

A snake-like robot developed by Japanese electronics giant Hitachi and its nuclear affiliate Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, has passed all tests and is ready for its April-timed probing of unit 1 of the ...

The tagline to 1978’s Jaws 2 is, “Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water!” It’s a strapline that could equally be adopted by the makers of Eelume, a snake-like robot designed to ...

There are a bunch of interesting constraints in designing the control for this bot. The tracks on the ground, naturally, have to adjust their relative angles so that they lie each flat on the surface, ...

Watch out, desert-dwellers: this snakelike robot can slither its way sideways up a sand dune. “Sidewinding appears to be a really complicated and an unintuitive way to move on sand, and no one ...

A robot from Carnegie Mellon takes the snake-bot concept and uses the twisty robo-critters as legs for a strange new machine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes could inspire new technologies for robots that could perform search and rescue missions, carry out inspections of hazardous wastes and even explore ...