Modular Snake Robots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T62E-_pQt3c

Amazing, yet kinda creepy snake robots from Carnegie Mellon Uni. More info:Modsnake.com check the gait videos - it does a helical snake (they call it strafing).
File it under object manipulation: inspiration. I’m just going to go and nail my door shut.

Posted by Drew on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 at 3:43 pm under Digital Manipulation. RSS 2.0 feed of comments for this post. Trackback.

2 Responses to “Modular Snake Robots”

lawrens Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Awesome!
It’s worth watching to find new ways to move our snakes…
^^
mcp Says:
March 11th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
oh hai!

In ur universiti, makin killa snake spy bot

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