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Robot Snake Can Climb Trees

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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  1. Re:Fucking Flash again by stephanruby · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When the market changes, and most people are viewing the sites on mobile devices, it'll make sense to change.

    Speak for yourself, that video plays just fine on my HTC 4G Evo.

  2. Re:Fucking Flash again by bhartman34 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Works on my Pre, too. I'm just saying it won't work with all mobiles.