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Students hope robot snakes slither out of lab.(Robot Technology)
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National Defense
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June 1, 2008
- Author:
- Magnuson, Stew
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* Students at Carnegie Mellon University laboratory are working on a family of robots that mimic the movement of snakes.
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Students and teachers at the biorobotics laboratory at CMU Robotics Institute see several applications for robots that that do not require wheels or legs to move.
"The best way to model a robot was to model it on nature, so we chose a snake," said undergraduate Sid Nangia.
Snakes can move through rocky areas, climb up poles, slither through crevices and even swim. The snake robot has demonstrated all these functions, students said.
The robot is actually a series of links, or a "modular chain of single degree of ...