The latest from NASA: Robo-Snakes!

[Alien]

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 It can coil like a cobra or switch like a sidewinder, but it isn’t a snake. It’s a snakebot, a long, thin, segmented robot meant to help explore space, NASA said Tuesday.

THE ROBOTIC SERPENT could be ready for space travel in five years, the space agency said in a statement from its Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley.

“The snake will provide us with flexibility and robustness in space,” said Gary Haith, the project’s engineer. “A snakebot could navigate over rough, steep terrain where a wheeled robotic rover would likely get stuck or topple.”

Want to learn more?

http://www.msnbc.com/news/471964.asp

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[mthrlangl]

Hrm..that's pretty interesting. Next they need little flying robots to take samples of the planet's stratosphere and stuff

(Forgive me if they already have those. I don't keep up with space technology advances very well.)

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[JHowse]

That is pretty cool. Is this the predacessor to one of the Dinobots from Transformers?

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[liltaz]

Transformers, GoBots...oh my hehe now snakebots..hehe

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