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Modular Snake Robots

Snake robots can use their many internal degrees of freedom to thread through tightly packed volumes and access locations that people and machinery otherwise cannot. These highly articulated device...  
 
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Yazora (1 week ago) Show Hide
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that is so creepy, yet so cool at the same time!!!
YukinoNekoXI (1 month ago) Show Hide
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that sucks, the least you could have done is make it move like a snake
Ebb0Productions (2 months ago) Show Hide
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INSANE ROBOTS, but veeeeeery annoying music :/
waderp (2 months ago) Show Hide
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very cool could be useful in hostage situations
bncesper (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Remove the tether and I'll be more impressed.
TheCannabisKing (3 months ago) Show Hide
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not all of them even had a tether, the one in the water for example.. you shouldn't fuss about something like that, its so irrational.
Reproductivist (4 months ago) Show Hide
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I suspect one of the reasons it is slow is that it uses motions used by living things. Maybe if you could run some AI to get it to automatically invent and test ways to move about, it could find better ones. Especially since it has a cable and thus energy efficiency doesn't matter.
h3adcrabbio (4 months ago) Show Hide
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DO A BARREL ROLL. snake.
Vire70 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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It doesn't particularly matter either way as this is more a demonstration of mechanics. Although it technically wouldn't be a robot if it wasn't autonomous.
pyrophonics (4 months ago) Show Hide
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LOL mellon university.

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