Carnegie Mellon Scientists Create Snake Robot That Can Crawl Up Your Leg

By Alex in Science & Tech, Video Clips on Jul 27, 2009 at 1:35 am

What do you get when you cross a snake with a robot? Howie Choset and the rest of the wily geniuses at Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University have created snakebots that can move by sidewinding, corkscrewing, rolling … and as you can see in the video clip, can also climb up your leg (yikes!)

All of us at Neatorama would like to be the first to welcome our new robot snake overlord: Link – via Suicide Bots

Previously on Neatorama: Snakebot and other robotic snakes

Tags: Carnegie Mellon, Howie Choset, robot, Snake

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Jul 27th, 2009 at 4:32 am
it is just rolling around.
Morgan
Jul 27th, 2009 at 5:09 am
Clicking the link will allow to watch another clip of robots that can reproduce other robots(so they claim). Now that’s scary!
marishka
Jul 27th, 2009 at 8:20 am
I wondered about the purpose of creating a robot snake until they showed it under the desk with the lights and crawling up the side of the building. Now I can think of all kinds of spying/freaking out the bad guy applications!
Briannana
Jul 27th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Oh… when I saw it going through the water I recalled those vicious scenes in Terminator 3 and I got a little urine on myself…
gurnorg
Jul 27th, 2009 at 9:11 am
I for one welcome our new serpent overlords..
Frau
Jul 27th, 2009 at 10:58 am
UNK engineering students did it first. Except that theirs was not made of segments. And it looked more like a snake, than popoids.
Johnny Cat
Jul 27th, 2009 at 11:04 am
This technology was pretty much designed for spying. The IDF was the first to jump on these things, and are training their soldiers to use them now.

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371047887&pagename=JPos t/JPArticle/ShowFull
Tigergulp
Jul 27th, 2009 at 2:03 pm
All hail our new and future king! *prostrates on the floor*
VonSkippy
Jul 27th, 2009 at 3:08 pm
I’m pretty sure the robots in Terminator didn’t have tethers.
Thomas
Jul 27th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
The tethers are probably a combination of data feedback and power source. Once they get all the bugs out and develop a lightweight battery system for it, I’d imagine these are good to go. I’m sure they could coat one side of the snake in tiny solar cells, and then it could get on top of a building or a rock and “sun” itself like a real snake.

Very neat.
Frau
Jul 30th, 2009 at 11:49 pm
*UNM
Jannarama
Aug 1st, 2009 at 3:48 pm
I can see this working for a lot of ‘spy’ applications… for instance, snaking into duct work w/ a camera attached to check out a scene before sending in people (I guess it would depend on the noise factor though.)

The one in the water…now THAT would be an expensive lure for crocs & gators.

Can you imagine Samuel L. Jackson doing “Robotic Snakes on A Plane”?! hehehe!!

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