Robot Snake Can Climb Trees · Slashdot Mirror

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 7, 2010 @06:10AM from the as-long-as-they-aren't-on-planes dept.

kkleiner writes "The latest in a line of 'modsnakes' from Carnegie Mellon's Biorobotics Lab, Uncle Sam can move in a variety of different ways, including rolling, wiggling, and side-winding. It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically, and even scale a tree. You have to watch this thing in action. There is something incredibly life-like and eerie about the way it scales the tree outdoors and then looks around with its camera 'eye.' Projects like Uncle Sam show how life-mimicking machines could revolutionize robotics in the near future."

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Re:Four posts in. by AnalogBrain · 2010-09-07 06:39 · Score: 4, Funny

Robotic snake Overlords? Modular snakes on a plane? "It can also wrap itself around a pole and climb vertically" - Yeah, but not as well as your mom? See? Still ripe for comments.