The German shepherd had sniffed his way through a 60-foot tunnel to reach the person trapped inside. He barked furiously to signal his human handlers — and a coiled robot snake dropped from his belly ...

It may be just circuits and metal, but this robotic snake from Carnegie Mellon University’s Biorobotics Lab will give you flashbacks to the hydrobots from Terminator Salvation. Behold the robot that ...

We’ve sung the mildly disturbing praises of Carnegie Mellon’s robot snakes before, but you have to check out this clip of their robosnake navigating a trap. This ...

EELS navigates around obstacles during a test in the Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...

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 ...

A student-led design team facilitated by Virginia Tech's Robotics and Mechanisms Laboratory Director Dennis Hong has created a lifesaving robotic invention that has thrust the university into the ...

…the spying robot, about two meters long and covered in army camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of a real snake, slithering around through caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, sending ...

People are becoming accustomed to robots in space, robotic vacuum cleaners and even the notion of robotic friends and spouses. But robotic snakes? It’s true. The Sintef Group, a research company based ...

Robot rabbit decoys are being used to find pythons. (South Florida Water Management District via SWNS) By Ben Barry Florida officials deploy robot rabbits to control the invasive Burmese python ...