Modelled after genuine snake movements, this Robo Snake slithers along the ground like a real snake, has a brilliant realistic tongue-flick motion and even has awesome eye movement - all designed to add a layer of the almost-uncanny to this robotic marvel of a snake. But the body suspension system – needed to keep the robot stable on large steps – means the robot uses more electricity.

Please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject's importance, use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance. It is hoped that the robots may some day help to explore inaccessible terrain, such as rubble after an earthquake. A SnakeBot is different from a snake-arm robot in that the SnakeBot robot types are usually more self-contained, where a snake-arm robot usually has remote mechanicals from the arm itself, possibly connected to a larger system. When a task requires several different obstacles to be overcome, the locomotive flexibility of SnakeBots potentially offers an advantage.The small cross-section-to-length ratios allow them to move into and maneuver through tight spaces and their ability to change the shape of their bodies allows them to perform a wide range of behaviors, such as climbing stairs or tree trunks. Implementing this control scheme in a SnakeBot capable of sidewinding allowed the robot to replicate the success of the snakes.

Through a series of experiments it was found that the snakes partitioned their bodies into three sections. Snakes have a bit of a reputation of being slimy and creepy (not true, but that’s the rep they’ve got). They say that compared to robot snakes from other studies, their creation is more stable than all but one, and came close to matching a real snake’s speed.This section contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. Snake robots come in many shapes and sizes, from as long as four stories (earthquake SnakeBot developed by SINTEF [1]) to a medical SnakeBot developed at Carnegie Mellon University that is thin enough to maneuver around organs inside a human chest cavity. Snakebots are used in situations where their characteristics give them an advantage over their environment. Software for SnakeBot is also being developed by NASA for them to be able to learn by experiencing the skills to scale obstacles and remember the techniques. Previous studies had mainly looked at snake movements on flat surfaces, but rarely in 3D terrain, except for on trees.