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Snake-like robot that can climb stairs unveiled at university in Tokyo mainichi.jp

posted by  banzaitokyo | 7 years, 7 months ago in Science & Technology

A snake-like robot that is capable of scaling and descending steep steps has been developed by a group that includes The University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo, it has been learned.

The development is promising because it is expected that the robot will be able to navigate its way smoothly through piles of rubble at disaster sites.


0 | #12967 by  Yubi | 7 years, 7 months ago
It seems there is still a long long way to go for this thing to be helpful. The robot is still slow and fully manual. I hope they will work on making it it a bit more automated, too.
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