New Robotic Snake Can Zigzag Like a Sidewinder Science Magazine
go to original October 14, 2014

Robotic snakes are great at getting into tight spaces, climbing, and even swimming but until recently they couldn't climb up sandy inclines. Check out what the robo-snake was able to learn from the champion of sandy surfaces - the sidewinder rattlesnake! Find out more at Science Magazine



The amazing ability of sidewinder snakes to quickly climb sandy slopes was once something biologists only vaguely understood and roboticists only dreamed of replicating. By studying the snakes in a unique bed of inclined sand and using a snake-like robot to test ideas spawned by observing the real animals, both biologists and roboticists have now gained long-sought insights. Video shows research into how the snakes move. (Georgia Tech)

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