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 ...

…the spying robot, about two meters long and covered in army camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of a real snake, slithering around through caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, sending ...

A new laser-welding 'robotic snake' developed by the UK Atomic Energy Authority has demonstrated its capability to operate inside of fusion energy powerplant pipework and is now patented technology.

People are becoming accustomed to robots in space, robotic vacuum cleaners and even the notion of robotic friends and spouses. But robotic snakes? It’s true. The Sintef Group, a research company based ...

EELS navigates around obstacles during a test in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

It may be just circuits and metal, but this robotic snake from Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab will give you flashbacks to the hydrobots from Terminator Salvation. Behold the robot that ...

We’ve sung the mildly disturbing praises of Carnegie Mellon’s robot snakes before, but you have to check out this clip of their robosnake navigating a trap. This ...

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 ...

A student-led design team facilitated by Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory Director Dennis Hong has created a lifesaving robotic invention that has thrust the university into the ...