A robot that's developed something of a mythology over the years now has a new trick. Snakebot, named ground rescue robot of the year in 2017 and helping its creator win the "Oscars of automation" in ...

Roboticist Matt Travers, center, with two Mexican Red Cross workers, prepares to deploy the snakebot into a collapsed apartment building in Mexico City on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The snakebot is ...

Howie Choset, a rambunctious roboticist who has been working on snake-like robots for decades at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new, ultra-slim snakebot that can crawl inside a small ...

Over the years, Carnegie Mellon University has upgraded its famous snakebot to give it the ability to do things like climb sand dunes and grasp objects. With its latest iteration, you can now add ...

Snake-like robots represent the future of rescue. Their slender bodies allow them to navigate narrow spaces, uneven terrain, and water surfaces, entering places that would be hazardous for humans.

Have a reconnaissance job that’s too dangerous or difficult to access to send in a person? Maybe it’s time to deploy a snake robot! “Most current ground-based mobile robots have limited mobility over ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway ...