Swimming Snake-Bot!

Morning All,

Just saw this at dvice.com

"Developed by the Hirose Fukushima Lab in Japan, the robot was designed to explore the movement mechanics of snakes and how they're able to move easily with no appendages. Now that they've developed a robot that can clearly swim pretty easily in water, it's not clear what they'll use it for other than terrifying beachgoers, but I'm sure they'll come up with something a bit more useful. I hope so at least."

Hirose Fukushima makes some cool 'bots.

Snake-Bot!!!

Wow!

These clever cats at Carnegie Mellon's Biorobotics Lab have created a miraculous robot snake. Check out this video:



So, it can swim, it can climb either the inside or outside of a cylinder, and it can crawl through tunnels while sending back video feeds. Staggering.

Now seems to be a good time to head into a career in robot engineering, programming, etc.

The next few years ought to be pretty exciting.

Check out the Biorobotics site.