The amazing modular snake robots of the Biorobotics Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania, have gained a new ability; to grapple and wrap around any object they are thrown at.
The Biorobotics Lab is something of a specialist in robotic snakes. Given a snake's lack of limbs, feet and any additional appendages, their unique take on propulsion is an ideal one to replicate in robots designed to explore hard-to-reach locations. "These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotion capabilities that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and the recently-developed legged robots," reads the lab's site. "The true power of these devices is that they are versatile, achieving behaviours not limited to crawling, climbing, and swimming."
By: David Cornish, Edited by: Olivia Solon
Continue reading...Source: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2013-03/22/robotic-snake-grips
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