The military establishment's ever increasing reliance on technology and whiz-bang gadgetry impacts us as consumers, investors, taxpayers and ultimately as the defended. Our mission here is to bring ...

A common challenge for most robotic technologies is access: being able to get in and out of tight spaces quickly, easily, and repeatedly. Ocrobotics built a five-segment snake arm as a technology ...

The snake robot has been something of an institution in the Carnegie Mellon robotics labs. Every time I visit the school, the biomimetic robot has seemingly learned a new trick. This week, the school ...

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.

For those who like to keep snakes and robots at an arm’s distance, don’t watch this video. It shows a snake-bot climb a pole and coil around a guy’s bicep. Carnegie Mellon University’s modular snake ...

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 ...

This underwater robot snake looks like fun, but it has an important job to do. The result of a collaboration between the Carnegie Mellon University, the ARM Institute and the Department of Defense, ...

Snake arm to provide aerospace solutions, including on-the-wing engine and airframe production UK company OCRobotics has developed a prototype flexible arm robot which has aerospace applications, such ...

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 ...