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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nature knows what it’s doing, and roboticists are more than happy to steal evolution’s ideas to make a plethora of curious and clever machines. and taking an astounding range of forms which ...

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 ...