CMU Unified Snake Robot
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 5:09 am
This is another one of those stories that comes from a cool YouTube vid with not much in the way of background, but we do know that this particular snakebot comes from CMU’s Biorobotics Laboratory modular snake robot project. We’ve covered their snake robots before (a few times), but this version certainly looks to be the most evolved.

A couple more vids, after the jump.
Comments (14)
Category: Biorobotics
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Comment by Cynox
Made Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 8:26 am
I like it ^^
The movments are way smother than any other snake bot i’ve seen.
Still need some ehancement like a killer mouth with big venimouse teeth ,but its one the good way xD
Comment by Snake Oil Baron
Made Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 10:46 am
This robot snake (S5, seems to me to be the most snake like but when I last looked into it, it could not climb poles and trees – though he was hoping to incorporate more flexibility in a future version so that this would be possible. This project is several years old and I have not seen any news on an “S8 “or S9″. That “S5″ at the link is wireless but looks less robust than the CMU snake. The pole climbing is very different from the way that snakes really do it and if the more serpentine method could be accomplished it would mean that the camera would not need to rotate as it climbed.
I think that the S5 is a good demonstration of the principle of snake like locomotion while the CMU snake could be said to have “better” hardware (except for the extension cord and short length). Hopefully someone will combine these methods.
Comment by Snake Oil Baron
Made Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 10:50 am
Something went wrong with my link to the S5 Snake Robot site. Try here:
Comment by Igor
Made Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 10:57 am
Comment by Snake Oil Baron
Made Friday, 19 of March , 2010 at 11:15 am
Weird! The link I left (in my second comment) to the S5 page on the Snake Robot site redirects to the CMU site. Any attempt I make to go to that “S5″ site redirects to the CMU site – even if I open a new Safari window and paste the adress in. But if I Google “snake robot” I can get to the S5 site with no problem.
Even typing the adress into a fresh window gets redirected.
Comment by The tribble
Made Tuesday, 30 of March , 2010 at 7:54 am
Looks heavy. How much does that thing weigh?
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