Danish scientists have developed an origami snake robot that could one day search for survivors at disaster sites, or even explore other planets. The device moves via rectilinear locomotion, just like ...

We’ve been following the development of Carnegie Mellon’s robotic snake for some time now. And as much as it’s a brilliant piece of technology, it’s also downright scary how realistically it can ...

Three soft robotics researchers from Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy and the University of Montpellier in France have developed a unique snake-like robot that 3D prints its own ...

Carnegie Mellon University has developed a modular robotic snake to perform underwater inspections. Underwater inspection can be a hazardous occupation for human divers. The modular robot snake is ...

Maintaining large electrical grids is a difficult and often dangerous task. Power lines stretch across vast distances, pass ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a mechanical snake designed to access and inspect areas that are unreachable by other ...

A team from the Guandu District Power Supply Bureau in China has developed robotic snakes capable of inspecting power lines ...

A tunable initial coiling structure soft robot (ICSBot) has been developed by combining theoretical calculations, finite element analysis, and direct ink writing technology. By mimicking the ...