Ground and Water Robotic Snake

By admin | Jul 2, 2008

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The Hirose Fukushima robotics lab has built an aquatic and terrestrial mobile robotic snake.  This thing looks pretty natural on land and in water.  They should skin it and make it look realistic.  You could scare the tar out of someone with this thing.

Dubbed the ACM-R5, the robotic snake boast some cool features:

“The control system of ACM-R5 is an advanced one. Each joint unit has CPU, battery, motors, so they can operate independently. Through communication lines each unit exchanges signals and automatically recognizes its number from the head, and how many units join the system. Thanks to this system operators can remove, add, and exchange units freely and they can operate ACM-R5 flexibly according to situations.”

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3 Comments so far
  1. Cameron July 5, 2008 10:55 am

    I wonder what possible applications there might be?

  2. Gadgets July 6, 2008 8:48 pm

    I could foresee some un-glamorous applications for these gadgets, such as swimming through sewers and water mains to see leaks, submerging in ponds and lakes to plow through the mud, etc.

  3. gmcgilli July 18, 2008 3:25 pm

    dont show this to my proctologist. ouch

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