Snake robots are already freaking creepy; so who had bright idea to make sea serpents?! You can find a few details on the ACM-R5 at TechEBlog. It can swim 30 minutes on a charge. So, the impending revolution will either be short lived or our destruction will be incredibly swift.
[thanks William]
This isn’t a hack.
no, but it is sweet
i want one :D
I await the day when I will have one of these swimming around my pool.
yepper depper
i, for one welcome our snakebot overlords.
aww! its so cute! and the female japanese commenters only make me smile even more.
good game japan, good game.
Wait Wait Wait. You guys are missing the most important thing here.
The picture is a video!
Elliot what are you doing. This is going to cause a ripple in the hack-a-day/user rift. Whats next. Actualy posting the site here to keep from crashing it?
is it me or does this look like the battlebot snake?
yeah, that’s frightening as hell.
as others said, and I don’t want to seem like I’m complaining because I do enjoy checking this site every day, but this is the kind of thing that I read engadget or digg for, I really feel that it doesn’t belong here.
It was never intended as the hack of the day. It was just a news item that I thought you guys would like. The hack usually is posted around 11am.
oh my god. that thing is creepy! looks very real(alive, if you will)
this is not a hack and can damn well not be made by 99% of this site’s readers, come on hackaday, you used to be cool
ffs, elliot said it himself! this aint a hack.
Please don’t post videos as the picture for hacks. It’s already bad enough that every day I look at hackaday I have to reload graphics for 5 or 6 previous hacks on the main page, without waiting for a video frame to load too. There are still a lot of people on crappy slow dialup…
i think this is awesom. and about the slow dial-up connection… get the rss feed. easy nuff done with google.com/ig
I have to say that is very neat. I loved the piece on the snake-bots a while back, and now that it swims it just adds another layer of coolness (and in this case practicality) to the idea.
The only thing it needs now is a submarine-type ballast(sp?) system so it can be neutrally boyant in the water and really let loose. Imagine the possibilities of a non-propeller un-manned submersable, you could adapt this to so many differnt things. Not only could it help study the ocean, it could come out on the market as a $150 toy all the snot-nosed rich kids want ;)
Creepy. Am I the only one thinking of Animatrix?
this thing is kick ass where can i buy one!
Nice job Eliot! Threw me off seeing color on the site though… :)
:| this will just add to my already large phobia of snakes…
just love to hear those people talk
holy crap.
robots that work on organic fuel (people): check
robots that self-replicate: check
robot sea monsters: check
we should actually invest in irradiating animals and people until we have a mutant force powerful enough to fight for our freedom. except we get into this whole ‘there was an old woman who swollowed a fly’ problem. however, i likes my dicators to be fleshy rather than robotic, so i’m fine ending the ladder there.
Peter, I’m thinking “One step closer to Henti!” Creepy.
and to think, it can “jump” up curbs too
and to the guy that complained about having dial up, were in 2006 get with the program already
Incredible, but it scares the s**t out of me.
Showed this to my kids – their first comment was like kyle90’s: whoever manages to sell these cheap as pool toys will make a fortune. I think they’re right — sure the one in the video looks kinda creepy, but you dress this up in bright colors and and stuff, give ’em swarming behavior (imagine 5 of these things doing synchronized swimming?), you got a hot property on yer hands.
So… it’s a one eyed-snake? :)
This is one of the collest things I have ever seen!
Nice thing. it seems that the robotics is quite advanced nowadays…
Imagine the progress they don’t show us in laboratories!
be patient,the future is allready here!
Remora Snakes and basking sharks by DARPA
In response to #27, just because you make something cute and fluffy will not disguise its true cybernetic evil. I mean lokk at the Furby there is no way that thing could be fluffier or cuter, but 90% of people still realize its evil beyond recognition.