Snake-like robots are hardy, maneuverable and perfect for trips into extremely cramped hazardous environments. Take, for instance, a nuclear power plant on the verge of meltdown. A recent test in ...

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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 ...

While you are out enjoying your Labor Day festivities, keep an eye out for robot snakes in the trees. The CMU robotics lab has built a snake bot named Uncle Sam that can climb trees and poles. As you ...

Every Friday, Future Tense rounds up the best robot videos of the week. Seen a great robot video? Tweet it to @FutureTenseNow, or email us. This week, the robot world was looking at snakes to improve ...

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 ...

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 ...

Basilisk? Nope, just your run-of-the-mill giant serpentine robot build. This build aims to recreate Titanoboa, a prehistoric snake which measured more than fifty feet long and weighted over a ton.

You’ve probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces–perhaps in collapsed buildings–that other machines can’t match.

For those who like to keep snakes and robots at an arm’s distance, don’t watch this video. It shows a snake-bot climb a pole and coil around a guy’s bicep. Carnegie Mellon University’s modular snake ...

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 ...