These snakes have to regularly travel across boulders and fallen trees – they’re the masters of movement and there’s much we can learn from them,” he said. Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. But for those of you who appreciate snakes for the critters they truly are, this awesome Robo Snake, in a choice of scarlet or green, might be just the fella you’re after. Snakes have a bit of a reputation of being slimy and creepy (not true, but that’s the rep they’ve got).

Software for SnakeBot is also being developed by NASA for them to be able to learn by experiencing the skills to scale obstacles and remember the techniques. Snake robots come in many shapes and sizes, from as long as four stories (earthquake SnakeBot developed by SINTEF [1]) to a medical SnakeBot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs inside a human chest cavity.The small cross-section-to-length ratios allow them to move into and maneuver through tight spaces and their ability to change the shape of their bodies allows them to perform a wide range of behaviors, such as climbing stairs or tree trunks. Through a series of experiments it was found that the snakes partitioned their bodies into three sections. Scientists observed how snakes moved and used this information to make a robot that can climb large steps in a nimble and stable fashion.

Previous studies had mainly looked at snake movements on flat surfaces, but rarely in 3D terrain, except for on trees. A SnakeBot is different from a snake-arm robot in that the SnakeBot robot types are usually more self-contained, where a snake-arm robot usually has remote mechanicals from the arm itself, possibly connected to a larger system. Sidewinder rattlesnakes can use sidewinding to ascend sandy slopes by increasing the portion of the body in contact with the sand to match the reduced yielding force of the inclined sand, allowing them to ascend to the maximum possible sand slope without slip. Li said: “The animal is still far more superior, but these results are promising for the field of robots that can travel across large obstacles.

This redundancy can make them resistant to failure because they can continue to operate even if parts of their body are destroyed.

But the body suspension system – needed to keep the robot stable on large steps – means the robot uses more electricity. They say that compared to robot snakes from other studies, their creation is more stable than all but one, and came close to matching a real snake’s speed.When a task requires several different obstacles to be overcome, the locomotive flexibility of SnakeBots potentially offers an advantage. This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. The SnakeBot, also known as a snake robot, is a biomorphic hyper-redundant robot that resembles a biological snake.