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General Misc => Robot Videos => Topic started by: olivthill on March 21, 2013, 09:05:28 AM

Title: Robot snake
Post by: olivthill on March 21, 2013, 09:05:28 AM
A snake climbing a pipe.
Dynamic Head Look Control for Modular Snake Robot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdWe9NvTVog#ws)
Title: Re: Robot snake
Post by: jwatte on March 21, 2013, 11:11:58 AM
That's pretty cute! I bet that green wire gets very tangled after a number of revolutions :-)

I imagine the idea is to understand snake-like locomotion specifically?
Title: Re: Robot snake
Post by: Canabots on March 21, 2013, 12:14:05 PM
IEEE Spectrum just posted an additional article of this as well:
http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/cmu-snake-robots-can-now-strangle-things-on-contact (http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/military-robots/cmu-snake-robots-can-now-strangle-things-on-contact)