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Battlefield Robot Is a Snake
Submitted by LiveScience Staff
posted: 10 June 2009 10:00 am ET
There's little that humans fear more in the natural world than snakes. The phobia is ingrained in our DNA, some scientists think, and may have driven the evolution of our keen eyesight.
So how appropriate that a battlefield spy robot
would be designed to look and slither like a snake. The 2-foot robot,
with a camera at its snout, is covered in a snake "skin" and was made
after researchers studied how real snakes move.
You'd have to be on the same team to love this bot (and soldiers do love their robots).
Other engineers have designed snake-like robots because they can get into tight corners to do work or inspect things. Even NASA has dabbled in Snakebots.
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