Israeli military develops robot snake for battlefield, children's nightmares

While this is by no means the first time we've seen a robotic snake prototype, it ain't every day that we find one so close to deployment. This self-propelling, two foot long robot can crawl along the ground, climb through debris, and even stand erect to give the operator a better view through the forward-mounted camera. The Israeli Defense Force says it will use this thing for "routine surveillance and reconnaissance." And if this is not enough? In that case, the prototype can be wired with explosives -- making it, in the words of the Jerusalem Post, a "suicide snake." Fun! And rather upsetting. No proposed price or timetable yet, but you can see the thing in action for yourself after the break.

[Pete99 @ Jun 9th 2009 6:09PM]

Not such a sercet weapon once you post it on youtube.

[General_Trelane, (retired) @ Jun 9th 2009 6:11PM]

Yet when I posted a video of MY "secret snake" on your tube is got deleted because someone flagged it as obscene...

Jealously is such an ugly human trait!

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:15PM]

My "suicide snake" is also two feet long... and can even stand erect to give the operator a better view...but no camo, tho.

[Jean-Michel Decombe @ Jun 9th 2009 7:04PM]

The union of two great videogame concepts: Bombersnake!

[Monkey with glasses @ Jun 9th 2009 7:22PM]

@General_Trelane, (retired)


Wrong site, try youporn and you won't have any problem

[tikiwk @ Jun 9th 2009 8:30PM]

Stop scaring me!

[ImaYam @ Jun 10th 2009 11:00AM]

Did that snake just initiate a nuclear strike??!?!?!?!

[Rocketboy @ Jun 10th 2009 11:15AM]

Who said it was a secret?

[Amun @ Jun 9th 2009 6:09PM]

Oh for the love of Pete...

[Dragonfly @ Jun 9th 2009 6:11PM]

This thing looks like a giant turd.

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:17PM]

a giant "suicide turd".

[BigD145 @ Jun 9th 2009 10:52PM]

KILL IT WITH FIRE!!

[astute @ Jun 10th 2009 10:37AM]

Hi-deee-ho! It's robot Mr. Hankey!

[Oscarv77 @ Jun 9th 2009 6:11PM]

In before the pacifists start protesting...

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:12PM]

My Israeli is a bit ruff, but I think he said "snake" and "hezbollah".

[bradleyawalker @ Jun 9th 2009 6:18PM]

"Israeli", better known as "Hebrew".

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:25PM]

I was wondering when you would show up.

[Wwhat @ Jun 10th 2009 8:15AM]

So if the hezbollah is badger badger badger badgering they will say a snake, a snake, oh it's a snake.

[Wwhat @ Jun 10th 2009 8:20AM]

Oh sorry, I was going to reply to this comment with 'it's known as 'ivrit' and decided to not but then forgot to do the 'undo' before posting my this comment-unrelated remark.

[miko34 @ Jun 9th 2009 6:13PM]

This is pure marketing for "G.I. Joe: Rise of the Cobra"

[miko34 @ Jun 9th 2009 6:16PM]

sorry ... "G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" ... such a boring title, I forget the name sometimes...

[fikhl @ Jun 10th 2009 1:25PM]

"I'm also sure you're aware that the president of Iran married a nine year old girl"

Bull.Shoot.

[injate @ Jun 9th 2009 6:18PM]

the modsnake is way cooler and smaller.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/03/07/snakebots-traverse-terrain-plan-silent-midnight-attack/

[Wwhat @ Jun 10th 2009 9:25AM]

Oh my, it's a trouser snake, as it were.

[Michael B @ Jun 9th 2009 6:21PM]

Endoscopes gone wild

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:23PM]

General_Trollane, (dishonorably discharged at birth)

AHAHAH!

[TareX @ Jun 9th 2009 6:25PM]

Yeah you know nothing about what your talking about. But I appreciate your juvenile enthusiasm.

I wonder if you'd still be happy if someone came into your home with a group of thugs, killed half children, and pushed whatever's left of your family out to the backyard, where he locks you in to die slowly, while he defends his "right to exist" inside your very home.

You know by the US law, you have the right to KILL this person and the case won't even make it to court.

[Kibbles @ Jun 9th 2009 6:27PM]

METAL GEAR?!

[Michael @ Jun 9th 2009 6:37PM]

snake?! SNAKE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[z-man @ Jun 9th 2009 6:42PM]

!



A SURVEILLANCE CAMERA !??!

[Cargojack @ Jun 9th 2009 6:31PM]

@TareX. Do you mean the liberated lands of Judea and Samaria? Finally, the Israeli will have one more tool to protect their civilians from the terrorists who have a vision of spreading their radical form of religion throughout the whole world. It is funny how when archaeologists dig in the West Bank, they find 2000 year old scrolls in Hebrew and never find any 2000 year old scrolls in Arabic. Maybe it is because Arabs did not arrive to that arrive until about 700 CE.

Long live the Snake!

[Str1ker @ Jun 9th 2009 6:31PM]

Pussies!

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 6:35PM]

DON'T FEED THE TROLL!

[Mark @ Jun 9th 2009 6:37PM]

@TareX: To be fair, I wouldn't call the whole Isreal and Palestine thing the Isreali's fault.. or the Palestinians'. Really we should all blame the UK for the whole mess since they promised the Palesitinians(who had been living there for 2000 years) the land and then gave it to the Jews after WWII and basically gave a big "screw you" to the existing Muslim inhabitants.

[go seki @ Jun 9th 2009 6:40PM]

Could be damn useful for search and rescue in post-quake situations.

Sometimes military gear has other benefits.

Now if I can only get it to work with my iPhone!

[wrabbit @ Jun 9th 2009 8:15PM]

Need to infiltrate a Hezbollah stronghold or rescue someone from the debris of a ruined building? iPhone has an app for that.
:D

[Wwhat @ Jun 10th 2009 9:29AM]

Great for helping your brother bust out of prison too.

(without having to spend whole seasons on it, hehe)

[Clyde Berry @ Jun 9th 2009 6:41PM]

Wow. A colonoscopy just got way creepier.

[Nohone @ Jun 9th 2009 6:42PM]

Now Israel can protect their families and the land they have inhabited for 1000s of years from the "Religion Of Peace" that send their women, children, and mentally challenged onto busses strapped with explosives to kill as many women and children as they can.

Try learning a little history. If you think the Palestinians have been anything but political pawns of the Saudis, Iranians, Iraqis (in the past), etc. then you are mistaken. If they are so opressed, then why don't those countries allow them into their countries to protect them from the evil, baby eating, Jews? Rather than do that, they want to keep them right where they are, and supply them with weapons so they can kill as many of the Israelies that you and they so hate, then turn around and cry about how horribly opressed they are when Israel retaliates for having missles launched at them.

[Mark @ Jun 9th 2009 6:42PM]

If you want a truly failed religion, just take a look at Christianity. It's been just as bastardized and rooted as any other religion out there. Funny how easily "Love thy brother" and "Woe to thee, whoever thou art that judgest, for thou that judgest others condmnest thyself, for thou doest the same things" turns into "Judge everyone and anyone who doesn't hold your exact belief in christianity deserves to die/be tortured/etc.

[kyau1 @ Jun 9th 2009 6:47PM]

WOW didn't know taking out your enemies is as easy as sending your enemies novelty can of toffee and having this sucker pop out and kill you.

[OneLove @ Jun 9th 2009 9:05PM]

lol. (i just pictured that in my head)

[TareX @ Jun 9th 2009 6:46PM]

Liberated land? I wonder how you'd feel if some delusional fanatic came into ("liberted") your home with a group of thugs, killed half of your children, and pushed whatever's left of your family out to the backyard, where he locks you with no food and drugs to die slowly, while he defends his "right to exist" inside your very home.

What people forget is that Israel was founded after depopulating Palestinian villages using shameful acts of terror, like throwing grenades into market places, homes...etc. At least 750,000 were killed and thrown away from their homes to be locked out in camps in Gaza, where they've been subjected to systematic genocide and inhumane war crimes.

Don't get me wrong, the Holocaust was THE darkest point of human history. But you don't "fix" that with 50 other dark points in human history.

Again, by US law, you can shoot the intruder once he steps into your home. In some states, you can kill him if you "suspect" he's about to come into your home.

[Mark @ Jun 9th 2009 6:46PM]

"Try learning a little history. If you think the Palestinians have been anything but political pawns of the Saudis, Iranians, Iraqis (in the past), etc. then you are mistaken. If they are so opressed, then why don't those countries allow them into their countries to protect them from the evil, baby eating, Jews? Rather than do that, they want to keep them right where they are, and supply them with weapons so they can kill as many of the Israelies that you and they so hate, then turn around and cry about how horribly opressed they are when Israel retaliates for having missles launched at them."

Or maybe everyone on both sides should learn a little bit of history and realize that both are just retaliating against each other. Palestinians lose a bunch of relatives in an Israeli attack and get pissed off and attack back with suicide bombers. Then Israeli's get angry at that and attack back with tanks. Then the Palestinians lose more family members and attack back with suicide bombers again. We seeing a pattern yet? BOTH SIDES ARE WRONG. Deal with it.

[ED @ Jun 9th 2009 6:46PM]

99: What's that?
Max: An electric snake, we'll send it it to get information.
99: What does it run on?
Max: Tiny. Little. Feet.

---

Blue Skies: What is that?
Red Cloud: If I didn't know better, I would say it was an electric snake.

[Mark @ Jun 9th 2009 6:53PM]

@General_Trelane, (retired): Yes, because having a bible that states that women shouldn't speak in church and has major figures with multiple wives(Solomon comes to mind) is sooo much better.

[Mark @ Jun 9th 2009 6:55PM]

Oh an nobody in the United States beats their wives either. Domestic abuse is at pretty much 0 here right?

[TareX @ Jun 9th 2009 6:57PM]

What are you talking about? If anything, Islam granted women their lost pre-Islamic rights. Islam granted women the right to be educated, choose who to marry, not be "inherited" as in Pre-islam paganism, work, earn a living, and VOTE.

Prophet Muhammed says:
"None but a noble man treats women in an honorable manner. And none but an ignoble treats women disgracefully. Do not beat them, and do not revile them."

"Attainment of Knowledge (science) is an obligation to every muslim man and woman"

The first physician in Islam was a female. Prophet Muhammed's wife was a business owner. You need to set your records straight. AND by the way, yes Israel was established illegally through acts of religious terrorism to depopulated Palestinian homes and lands to have their own "Jewish" state.

[Jeff @ Jun 9th 2009 6:58PM]

Israeli historian like Benny Morris, Tom Segev and Avi Shlaim have written repeatedly in their publications that before 1948, Jews owned a mere 7% of land in Palestine. The United Nations report from 1920, includes demographic statistics about the region and it states that in 1850, there were more than 750,000 Palestinians in the holy land and a "handful" of Jews. The previously mentioned historians, put their numbers at 5000.

You can take your scrolls and do what you choose with your selective perception.

By the way, if we're to get into a biblical debate about religious mumbo jumbo, then you're wrong there too. Because when Jews "fled" from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, upon entering Jericho, Joshua (see Book of Joshua) instructed his army to burn every home, cut down every tree, kill every animal and every child, woman and man.

So, there you have it. The Canaanites (who the Palestinians are descendants of) were there long before your beloved scroll were ever written.

And before you come back with "they didn't speak Hebrew" BS, I'll have you know that neither Hebrew nor Arabic were used at the time, but Aramaic.

At the end of the day, your argument is childish, religiously motivated and fanatic. But, you already knew that.

[Wwhat @ Jun 10th 2009 9:34AM]

Uhm, well americans only bought a max 7% of the indians too, and the brits are occupying scotland. Right?
So all americans should move to manhattan and stop occupying :) Can you imagine it? All of the texan and californian etcetera population moving to manhattan, that would be a sight to behold.