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Robot Snake Can Climb Trees

Posted by Soulskill on 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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  1. Fucking Flash again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why the hell do people keep using Flash just to play a godamn video? HTML5 is here today, take advantage of it you fuckers! Or do you just enjoy having less people be able to view your content?

    1. Re:Fucking Flash again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      It's out of sheer spite for any idiot who thinks they are cool enough to buy an iPad / iPhone.

    2. Re:Fucking Flash again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Have you ever seen the processor usage on non-Windows platforms? It's so abysmal that I deleted Flash from all my systems. I don't need a plug-in to downgrade my computer like it's 1995 all over again.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.