The Incredibly Creepy, Incredibly Cool Modular Robot Snake

Home robots of the future are going to come in every shape and size, as there is no one form that will be suitable for every task. So, what would you think about a robot taking the form of a snake? Think about the applications from investigating your sewers, air ducts and all sorts of tight places. Or what about a security robot guaranteed to scare the heck out of an intruder while he crawls up his leg? The Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science’s Biorobotics Laboratory is developing modular snake robots whose highly articulated devices can perform a variety of locomotion capabilities that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and the recently developed legged robots. Watch the video and think of all the possibilities.