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 ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

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 ...

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows ...

It may be just circuits and metal, but this robotic snake from Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab will give you flashbacks to the hydrobots from Terminator Salvation. Behold the robot that ...

The next machine to explore alien worlds may slither rather than roll. NASA is currently testing a snake-like robot that its engineers hope will one day be deployed into the oceans of Saturn’s moon ...

I’ve also previously experimented with various wheel alternatives, to see how robots can climb over objects. This included a hybrid-leg-wheel robot, and my Pedrail wheels, which had fourteen extending ...