A robot from Carnegie Mellon takes the snake-bot concept and uses the twisty robo-critters as legs for a strange new machine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

A snake-like robot developed by Japanese electronics giant Hitachi and its nuclear affiliate Hitachi-GE Nuclear Energy, has passed all tests and is ready for its April-timed probing of unit 1 of the ...

Nature knows what it’s doing, and roboticists are more than happy to steal evolution’s ideas to make a plethora of curious and clever machines. and taking an astounding range of forms which ...

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. Carnegie Mellon University’s modular snake ...

Blend the Japanese folding technique of Kirigami with an elastomer actuator, and what have you got? A locomoting snake robot that can huff around its own girth with no strings attached! That’s exactly ...

NASA’s team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has offered a look at the latest version of its snake-like EELS robot (short for Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor). A video (below) shared this week ...

The military establishment's ever increasing reliance on technology and whiz-bang gadgetry impacts us as consumers, investors, taxpayers and ultimately as the defended. Our mission here is to bring ...

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 ...