Carnegie Mellon's robotic snake stars in a glamour video

We've been pretty into Carnegie Mellon's modular snake robots for a while now, and seeing as it's a relatively sleepy Sunday we thought we'd share this latest video of snakebots just basically crawling all over the place and getting crazy. Bots like these have been getting some serious military attention lately, so watching these guys wriggle into any damn spot they please is at once awesome and terrifying. Or maybe it's just the music. Video after the break.

[Thanks, Curtis]

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 5:09AM]

This is awesome! I'll put my Aibo to sleep and get one of these...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 12th 2009 11:46PM]

Professor Howie Choset's work is crazy mad impressive. Those snakes are really intense. It's pretty sweet that as an undergrad I had the opportunity to take a course with him.

[One Love Posted Jul 13th 2009 9:54AM]

The enemy will see the long yellow power cord. (ninja snake)

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 12th 2009 11:48PM]

I for one welcome our modular snake robot overlords...

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 8:35AM]

shup up, please.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 10:34AM]

love the simpsons reference.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 12th 2009 11:48PM]

Didn't I see that in every futuristic-horror-robot movie?

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:03AM]

cant wait for this to show up in MGS5

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:13AM]

Lets hope they don't mooo

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:13AM]

Imagine a pair of marines running around the battlefield looking for an outlet... What you can't think of a way to make it battery powered?


Still a novel robot for sure.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 2:44AM]

because we all know inventions are created perfectly on the first try and never improved upon. im sure later on they will add more to this design.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 4:07AM]

what he said

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 4:11PM]

obviously that is the end goal, dousche.

[FallenArms3 Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:09AM]

0:49 freaked me out. But it's all very impressive tech.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:26AM]

I have meet Howie Choset, and know people who have taken his class.
Very cool snake robot, and nice scenes of Carnegie Mellon.

[mildoath Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:44AM]

wow! who on earth would come up with such a crazy idea??
yeah, pretty much no one knows Howie Choset.

(plz to have more penis jokes plz)

[iesuck Posted Jul 13th 2009 12:52AM]

The clip was cool, but the darn music was annoying... i rather hear some gears clicking or servo sound than that techno crap.

[redkamel Posted Jul 13th 2009 1:21AM]

I like the idea of sidewinder motion. I am sure if the government pours some money into this it could go really far. Now all they need is a really awesome battery/solar panel skin/really low energy usage.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 1:25AM]

You're only making it easier for Skynet!

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 8:55AM]

Be careful, these things swallow aibos for breakfast

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 11:15AM]

Soon to be crawling up Kim Jong-il's rectum for mind control.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 2:29PM]

Rectum? Damn near killed 'em.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 4:51PM]

Wait for its day view in porn.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 13th 2009 10:48PM]

its debut noob

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 14th 2009 8:20AM]

ESL here, thank you for the correction.

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 14th 2009 9:08AM]

It's asl nub

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 14th 2009 6:41PM]

no it is not, idiot : )

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 15th 2009 2:30AM]

Now I have that Badger and snake video stuck in my head....

[(Unverified) Posted Jul 18th 2009 4:00PM]

ooooooohhh it's a snaaaaaake