[Tyler]

Robots: Slithering Creatures  
     

 
 
Snakes are exceptionally agile, which allows them to slide, squeeze,
climb or slither into places that people and most other types of robots
can't reach. This makes snake robots very attractive in spite of the
hair-raising complexity of the required mechanics and control
algorithms. The latest episode of the Robots podcast interviews two
leading researchers working on snake robots: Howie Choset is an associate professor and the
director of the BioRobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University where his research in
path planning, motion planning and estimation have been used to control
a range of snake-inspired robots. Among
other things, his group has built robots capable of more
than 10 different snake gaits, from sidewinding to pipe rolling.
Check out the video above for a first glimpse of his work. This
episode's second guest is Erik Kyrkjebø, Senior
Researcher at the Applied Cybernetic
department at Scandinavia's largest independent research organization,
the SINTEF in Norway. Kyrkjebo talks about the PiKo pipe inspection robot and the fire
fighting robot Anna Konda which is
propelled by water. For more information read on on the Robots
webpage or directly tune
in to this episode.

   

http://robots.net/article/2940.html
     

[Duskrider]

Robot snakes.  what an interesting idea.

I'll have to think on this a little for halloween.  

[ALADYBLOND]

leave it to dusky to think outside of the box. really cool...~~alady

[Maviarab]

Ok now thats odd hehe

[ALADYBLOND]

i think dusky can get sandee into any position or shape possible...lol