What’s creepier than a snake robot? Answer: A snake robot that’s designed to crawl through the blood vessels in your brain. That’s exactly what researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

One snake's ability to shimmy up slippery sand dunes could inspire new technologies for robots that could perform search and rescue missions, carry out inspections of hazardous wastes and even explore ...

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.

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

In the horticultural world, some vines are especially grabby. As they grow, the woody tendrils can wrap around obstacles with ...

EELS is designed to slide down narrow vents on icy worlds, including Saturn's moons, and search for signs of habitability in their subsurface oceans. Reading time 3 minutes A new robot has joined NASA ...

Three soft robotics researchers from Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy and the University of Montpellier in France have developed a unique snake-like robot that 3D prints its own ...

Designed for slithering through difficult-to-reach places, the snake robot is made of mostly identical segments that can all receive commands from a human operator. (Image via RTK) For a human trapped ...

Despite their cute faces and little tongues, snakes are far from a widely loved animal. For many, these slithering serpents invoke fear of poisoning, strangulation or simply of them falling from ...

The German shepherd had sniffed his way through a 60-foot tunnel to reach the person trapped inside. He barked furiously to signal his human handlers — and a coiled robot snake dropped from his belly ...

Tesla’s concept for a robot snake charger for self-driving vehicles might still happen, says CEO Elon Musk. In 2015, Tesla released a video of an automated robot charger that looks like a metal snake.

( Nanowerk News) Engineers have designed robots that crawl, swim, fly and even slither like a snake, but no robot can hold a ...