When sea snakes swim, they wind their way through the water by flicking their flattened tails, which is super graceful but requires a whole lot of coordination. So when roboticists at Carnegie Mellon ...

Despite their cute faces and little tongues, snakes are far from a widely loved animal. For many, these slithering serpents invoke fear of poisoning, strangulation or simply of them falling from ...

A robot snake that can slither across the ground could be used for rescue tasks or inspecting hard-to-reach places. Snakes can get around in different ways. When on flat, slippery ground like a desert ...

Seeing a snake walk is a bit unnerving, even if you’re not one of the many people scared of them. But that’s exactly what happens when YouTuber Allen Pan builds a robotic lizard body for snakes. When ...

Animals in their natural environments effortlessly switch up their movements to hunt, escape from predators and travel with their packs every day. By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and ...