Comments on: Bad-ass modular snake robot

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:46:36 +0000

I want one of those, looks excellent fun

By: HarrisonHopkins

HarrisonHopkins — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 01:30:49 +0000

I want one. Now.

By: CD Watters

CD Watters — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 17:29:02 +0000

Probably the cables are for power as well as control, otherwise putting WIFI or BT would be pretty simple for offboard control.

Still, they have been doing some very nice things here, if it's modular, then eventually several snakebots should be able to connect and cooperate for larger tasks.

This would make one hell of a search bot for disasters, put an appropriate sensor suite on it, and it could wiggle into places where normal searchbots fail.

By: hannes

hannes — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:04:20 +0000

Scary stuff!

I am with Indiana Jones: “I hate snakes”

Still, awesome engineering…

By: srilyk

srilyk — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 14:43:34 +0000

I must admit I'm VERY impressed,

but I am curious as to the power draw of this snakey (I was going to say puppy... but obviously it's not).

OOOH! Finally! Something that can eat those dumb iDogs! YES! Good job guys!

By: Tory

Tory — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:50:40 +0000

Put a couple of these together, mount a platform on top, and this would be the best exploratory rover ever built!
If you build it large enough, it could support the weight and power requirements for the processor power/memory to be ‘on board’ and make it independent of control cables!
Way Cool!!!

By: cameron20020

cameron20020 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 07:08:31 +0000

mmm nice…
would make a nice robot pet, even though robot pets arent that good, would be nice, as i wouldnt need a license to own this, but i would with the real thing. mwhahah imagine the evil deeds that could be conquered with this, disguise it as a deadly snake, and order it to chase someone around lol

By: despot

despot — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 00:36:34 +0000

pretty sure i saw this on slash dot last year. (might have been a different project)

By: adamcpennington

adamcpennington — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:04:49 +0000

These could go anywhere you want to, or anywhere everyone doesn’t want you. I wouldn’t want that thing crawling up my leg. Someone’s going to get dirty and put venemous fangs on the head of this bot.

By: max7

max7 — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:29:37 +0000

truly crazy sexy awsome robotdesign. big up!

By: a.ntivir.us

a.ntivir.us — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:01:16 +0000

that’s crazy bad ass…

By: Doug

Doug — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:40:47 +0000

Far out, as creepy as the real thing. OK stand still as we demo this thing crawling up my leg. Am over the top touch would be some rattles on the tail end.

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:16:55 +0000

I wonder if they get tired of hearing and reading -= wow =- ?

I hope not, because _wow_ that's some nice work!

-and another one just so you know I'm serious.

wow!

By: Rad

Rad — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:28:14 +0000

I was thinking the same thing, bomb squad/recon. I wonder how they keep the cable(s) from tangling? I can’t really see in the video, and also, I would like to know how much power one of those eats, even for high end servos, I’m sure the draw is pretty demanding.

Otherwise, purely awesome, I love the plastic skins they have for water/outside, they could have just video taped a snake, and I wouldn’t look twice.

By: RT (Panzer Time!)

RT (Panzer Time!) — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 08:03:18 +0000

I need to get one of these. I could SO use it to do stuff I’m not supposed to. I can just imagine…

These would make the best bomb squad robots ever.