Watch this ‘snakebot’ pick up objects and climb walls
By Matthew HutsonAug. 30, 2017 , 2:00 PM
If you’re scared of snakes and robots, this new machine is bound to give you nightmares. Researchers have developed a “snakebot” composed of a series of round discs that sandwich foam bladders. A pneumatic tube and wires run down the center of the stacked modules, controlling the collapse of each bladder and causing the appendage to bend in that direction, like a contracting muscle bending a joint. When the researchers attached a suction cup to the end, powered with the same pneumatic tube, it could pick up and place objects, they report today in Science Robotics.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/watch-snakebot-pick-objects-and-climbs-walls
