Video Monday: CMU SnakeBots
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Monday, 13 of July , 2009 at 4:29 am
One of the coolest things about snake inspired robots is how they’re in the process of transcending their biological models, as this video from CMU’s biorobotics lab shows. I’m fairly certain that nowhere in nature do snakes leverage their design to, for example, climb up vertical poles with a twisting motion. This may be because real snakes are able to execute a much finer degree of control over their muscles so as to render such a motion unnecessary, but on the other hand, perhaps twisting is actually a primitive emulation of a sidewinder motion. Either way, it’s good to see some wholesome research snakebots again, after the last ones we wrote about, which were decidedly more violent.
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Category: Biorobotics, Research
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