This underwater robot snake looks like fun, but it has an important job to do. The result of a collaboration between the Carnegie Mellon University, the ARM Institute and the Department of Defense, ...

The snake robot has been something of an institution in the Carnegie Mellon robotics labs. Every time I visit the school, the biomimetic robot has seemingly learned a new trick. This week, the school ...

South Korea's Defense Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) is actively pursuing the development of "biomimetic" robot systems designed to mirror the natural movements of animals and insect, with ...

If you haven’t heard of Carnegie Mellon’s snakebot, it is basically what its name suggests. A long cylindrical robot that moves much like a snake, the snakebot has been engineered to do a number of ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- A team from Carnegie Mellon University's Biorobotics Lab created a robot that can swim. The snake-like robot was developed to inspect Navy ships. CMU says the robot's narrow and ...

A robot that's developed something of a mythology over the years now has a new trick. Snakebot, named ground rescue robot of the year in 2017 and helping its creator win the "Oscars of automation" in ...

Some weeks are slim pickings when it comes to pulling together interesting robotics stories. This is, decidedly, not one of those weeks. In fact, it’s been a bit tough keeping up with the deluge of ...

Scientists have created a robotic snake that could be used to help victims of natural disasters or had accidents in unusual places. Scientists have created a robotic snake that can crawl, climb, swim ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon has pushed the development of the previously unveiled robot snake underwater, making it capable of swimming fully submerged. The team from the Biorobotics Lab in the ...

But there’s nothing supernatural about how snakes move. So how exactly do they get around without legs? They do it by ...

Robots that move across both land and water are potentially very useful, but they also tend to be complex and rather slow. A new bio-inspired amphibious bot, however, utilizes a relatively simple ...