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  1. old claims and older research by girlinatrainingbra · · Score: 1 · on Robot Snake Could Aid Search and Rescue Operations
    So every time a snake robot PR blurb is published, a university PR and Patents & Innovation department gets a pat on the back! See a 1993 article about snake-like locomotion in biologically inspired robots
    . -- S. Hirose, P. Cave, and C. Goulden, Biologically inspired robots: snake-like locomotors and manipulators, vol. 64. Oxford University Press Oxford, UK, 1993

    [ link found as # 14 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bio-inspired_robotics ]

    -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roboboa = Roboboas has 4 angled body sections, allowing Roboboa to coil by rotating adjacent sections. A motorized tail roller and casters on the midsection allow Roboboa to move in a straight line.

    -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snake-arm_robot

    -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakebot = Snake robots come in all shapes and sizes, from the three meters long, fire fighting snakebot developed by SINTEF,[1] to a medical snakebot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs inside a human chest cavity. Though snakebots can vary greatly in size and design, there are two qualities that all snakebots share. First, their small cross section to length ratio allows them to move into, and maneuver through, tight spaces. Second, their ability to change the shape of their body allows them to perform a wide range of behaviours, such as climbing stairs or tree trunks.

    And my favorite section is at

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robotics#Snaking : Several snake robots have been successfully developed. Mimicking the way real snakes move, these robots can navigate very confined spaces, meaning they may one day be used to search for people trapped in collapsed buildings.[72] The Japanese ACM-R5 snake robot[73] can even navigate both on land and in water.[74] [these references are:

    72 = http://www.snakerobots.com/

    73 = http://www-robot.mes.titech.ac.jp/robot/snake/acm-r5/acm-r5_e.html with cool pictures of swimming snake robots

    74 = Swimming snake robot (commentary in Japanese)

  2. Re:So let me get this straight... by ozmanjusri · · Score: 3, Funny · on Robot Snake Could Aid Search and Rescue Operations

    We'be been building them for the better part of a decade, and stories about them get posted to Slashdot after every major building collapse.

    http://www.snakerobots.com/

  3. Re:Old news by truthful+cynic · · Score: 2, Informative · on A Modular Snake Robot

    This really is not too new. This person has been doing impressive things with robosnakes for at least 15 years.... http://www.snakerobots.com/

  4. Other snake 'bots by HoneyBeeSpace · · Score: 3, Informative · on Anna Konda, the Robotic Firefighter

    For some other snake robots, check out these links:

    http://www.snakerobots.com/

    http://arctangent.8k.com/snake/snakemain.htm

  5. Movement by Instine · · Score: 5, Interesting · on Anna Konda, the Robotic Firefighter

    Is there anywere in either artical that says how it moves forwards? I'm currently making a robot snake of my own, and the rectilinear motion is by far the most difficult part of the physical design. I'm assuming it uses wheel, but can tell from the images.

    Great stuff. It not entirely new though.

    This is my fave out there at the mo. Snake link (click the images for vids)

  6. Re:howto by Emetophobe · · Score: 1 · on Howto - Flying Snakes

    Here here and here

  7. Karma whoring! by martingunnarsson · · Score: 2, Informative · on Animal Robots

    Clickable link.

  8. Cool, but ... by Rolo+Tomasi · · Score: 5, Informative · on Robots for Air Force Protection

    Cool stuff, but I think these would be much more intimidating to potential attackers (check out the videos). :)

  9. More Snake Robots (but maybe not in space ;) by landaker · · Score: 1 · on NASA Snake-Bots

    I don't know if anyone mentioned this (if they did, it didn't show up on my threshold, anyway ;) but if you're interesting in Robotic Snakes (apparently, so of you aren't ;) Here is another good site that has some working prototypes independantly developped. http://www.snakerobots.com/ There are some nice MPEG movie shots of the things working, and some nice still images, if that's your thing. They look really nice, but I don't know if I'd send them into space. ;)

  10. Mark Yim by Animats · · Score: 4 · on NASA Snake-Bots
    That's Mark Yim's work. He does good stuff. Yim is just about the only guy to come out of Stanford robotics in the 1990s who actually built a complex mechanical device that worked. Even more impressive is that he got Xerox PARC to buy into the idea. PARC hasn't done robotics much, but they do have the ability to build precision machinery in house, since they make copier and printer prototypes.

    This general idea has been around for years; Gavin Miller has been doing snake robots and snake animations since the 1980s. (Miller's a great guy, but he has this thing for snake locomotion.) Snakelike robot tentacles have been built and used, with modest success, as spray-painting robots.

    There's probably a cool toy in this. The technology needs to be redesigned by somebody like the guy who did the Furby to get the cost down, though.