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 ...

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 ...

The sight of several robotic snakes slithering down a hallway together is enough to most people the heebie-jeebies. But Greek researchers believe teams of coordinated snake-like robots could someday ...

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 ...

A snakebot recently crawled up my leg. The engineers sort of grinned while I grimaced, wondering if I should try to attack it or cry for help, an impulse that comes from watching too many scifi movies ...

Snakebot helped search through the rubble for survivors after last fall's Mexico City earthquake. Presenting the award were representatives from the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR ...

The simplicity but excellent mobility of snakes makes them an ideal creature for roboticists to emulate, but it also yields robots that are downright creepy. Making things worse, researchers at the ...