Robo-Snakes are the Future

ok so we already all know that one day in the near future, robots will revolt and overtake mankind. it might be a tough pill to swallow but i think we can take comfort in knowing that our future robot overlords will have robotic snakes as pets. and peeps are already creeped out. i just saw this blog post. check it out: https://technabob.com/blog/2018/10/1...ng-snake-robot


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How about a game of chutes and ladders? Uh, I mean snakes and ladders. Look, snakes are nature’s creepiest creation and robots are man’s creepiest creation. So naturally, scientists had to combine them both for maximum terror. While we’re at it, let’s make these robotic creepy crawlies climb ladders, cause you know, we wouldn’t want humans getting away.

Seriously though, a snake is a great design for robotics. They can slither in and out of small spaces to look for damage in structures or rescue someone trapped under rubble, plus they can handle all kinds of terrain. But just because we can do it, doesn’t mean we should. Because now researchers have taught robot snakes to climb ladders. There goes your second story escape plan.

Researchers from the Kyoto University and University of Electro-Communications have developed a robot snake that can bend and twist its segmented body, allowing it to slowly wrap itself around each rung as it climbs a ladder.

Good job researchers. Now, where are we going to go to escape robot snakes? I built a treehouse specifically to escape them and I just know that when I go up there next, now I’m going to find a bunch of robot snakes up there reading dirty mags, which is my job.

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source: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/...ng-snake-robot

vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5UvFkt87NE


youtube acutally has quite a few robo-snake research and development vids including this one tunneling through pipes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oat582SaTko i think it's really cool that these snakes will have helpful real world applications. (that is until the robots revolt.)

Interesting but not gonna replace the real ones. Though if farmers keep dumping toxic chemicals on their crops this might be the only way left to kill wild rats,
but they're gonna need a lot more speed. :rolleyes:

Kind of cool tho

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That video is super cool...it just shows you how far behind "mother nature" we poor humans are, lol...& they STILL don't even flick their tongues! :D