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Developers at Carnegie-Mellon have designed a robot that maneuvers like a snake and is capable of crawling up pipes and legs, and navigating otherwise inaccessible places.

Video complete with killer techno music. picked by mahler87 6 months ago

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7	gymcloth...

6 months ago

Anyone else see the breakthrough that could be waiting in the female toy department?

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6	duditz

6 months ago

sometimes i walk past CMU and smell the genius in the air...

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14	bunnysut...

6 months ago

Coolest. Thing. Evar.

Almost trumps the Hawaii chair!

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13	ImNotBlu...

6 months ago

"I have had it with these motherf**king robotic snakes, on this motherf**king plane!"

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1	molossus

6 months ago

Is it also earless like a snake? I wish I were after hearing that video's trainf**k soundtrack.

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10	extc68

6 months ago

Here's the snake's homepage and this is a /. article about it (I found it there yesterday and was gonna post it today but you beat me to it :)

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11	mewhiten...

2 months ago

That was one crazy robot snake....It seemed so lifelike,

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