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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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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 ...

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.

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 ...