A repair robot that takes inspiration from the bendiness and sensing ability of snakes to access hard-to-reach places in harsh, industrial environments is now being exploited for use in human surgery.

Designed for slithering through difficult-to-reach places, the snake robot is made of mostly identical segments that can all receive commands from a human operator. (Image via RTK) For a human trapped ...

Scientists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have spent a number of years developing modular snake-like robots for all kinds of purposes, and the latest adaptation sees its serpent-inspired tech ...

When sea snakes swim, they wind their way through the water by flicking their flattened tails, which is super graceful but requires a whole lot of coordination. So when roboticists at Carnegie Mellon ...

ANCHOR MICHELLE WRIGHT SHOWS US ITS SLITHERY COUNTERPART. THIS WEEK, WE’VE BEEN TAKING YOU TO THE FUTURE WITH A LOOK INSIDE THE CARNEGIE MELLON ROBOTICS LAB TO SHOW YOU WHAT’S BEING DEVELOPED RIGHT ...

Robots are great at exploring land, sea, sky and space, but one environment that’s trickier for them to navigate is through the ground. Now, engineers at UC Santa Barbara (UCSB) and Georgia Tech have ...

Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out. The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space ...