The German shepherd had sniffed his way through a 60-foot tunnel to reach the person trapped inside. He barked furiously to signal his human handlers — and a coiled robot snake dropped from his belly ...

Three soft robotics researchers from Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Italy and the University of Montpellier in France have developed a unique snake-like robot that 3D prints its own ...

…the spying robot, about two meters long and covered in army camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of a real snake, slithering around through caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, sending ...

Icy ocean worlds like Europa or Enceladus are some of the most promising locations for finding extra-terrestrial life in the Solar System because they host liquid water. But to determine if there is ...

Is there life outside of Earth? A new snake-like robot could be the one to find out. The Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) is being developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for a space ...

EELS is designed to slide down narrow vents on icy worlds, including Saturn's moons, and search for signs of habitability in their subsurface oceans. Reading time 3 minutes A new robot has joined NASA ...

We’ve been following the development of Carnegie Mellon’s robotic snake for some time now. And as much as it’s a brilliant piece of technology, it’s also downright scary how realistically it can ...

Inspired by nature’s simplest creatures, an innovative robotic duo combines tiny, insect-like robots with inflatable, vine-like robots that grow and curl like snakes. The innovation named mCLARI, ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is testing out a snake-like robot that is meant to one day climb into the icy vents of Saturn’s moon Enceladus and take a dip into its subsurface ocean below to look ...