Thursday, July 23, 2009

Slitherbot

I confess: I'm an unabashed fan of robot demonstration videos (especially if said robots are biomimetic). But as much as I've appreciated previously posted robot vids, this metamorphic, seemingly unstobbable "slitherbot" ranks as one of my recent favorites.



(Thanks to Beyond the Beyond.)

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7 comments:

Aunty Proton said...

Nimble little minx, isn't it?

It'll be searching for people in collapsed buildings in 5 years, and a toy "cyberpet" version will be on the market in 10. In 11 years, hackers will have modded them to string cable and climb up the sides of buildings with RFID scanners and webcams.


Aunty Proton

Red Pill Junkie said...

I agree that using these cybersnakes to locate survivors after Earthquakes catastrophes is the most noble endeavor for this project; but... I just KNOW that right now there's someone at the NSA headquarters salivating profusely after watching this clip :-(

Katie said...

The Israeli's are already working on something similar as a battle field robot. I actually sent Mac this article and accompanying video back in June...

http://tinyurl.com/nmrlen

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