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

Posted by Alex in Science & Tech, Video Clips on July 27, 2009 at 1:35 am


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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

 
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