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

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

it is just rolling around.

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Clicking the link will allow to watch another clip of robots that can reproduce other robots(so they claim). Now that's scary!

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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!

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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...

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I for one welcome our new serpent overlords..

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UNK engineering students did it first. Except that theirs was not made of segments. And it looked more like a snake, than popoids.

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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=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

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All hail our new and future king! *prostrates on the floor*

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I'm pretty sure the robots in Terminator didn't have tethers.

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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.

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*UNM

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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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