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 ...

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 ...

The snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several pragmatic attributes. The first is redundancy, which allows ...

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 ...

I, for one, welcome the era of autonomous, interplanetary snakes. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA is currently testing an ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and take a dip into its subsurface ocean below to look ...