A robot from Carnegie Mellon takes the snake-bot concept and uses the twisty robo-critters as legs for a strange new machine. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

Feast your eyes upon the autonomous “Snake Monster,” a walking hexapod robot whose insect-like gait permits it to deftly climb over obstacles and move at a respectable pace. The robot was developed at ...

Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) has created a new robot that has six legs, looks creepily like a spider when it walks, and is dubbed "Snake Monster". Not exactly endearing traits, but the Snake ...

It’s more spider than snake, but a robot called Snake Monster can dial up the creep factor when it crawls around on six legs. The latest creation to come out of the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) ...

First in what CMU said is a new breed of reconfigurable modular devices. While it looks more like an arachnid than a reptile, Carnegie Mellon University's "Snake Monster" is set to make robotic ...

If you have ophidiophobia, fear of snakes, this new exhibit will either give you nightmares or cure you. After this monster 48-foot-long snake, a replica from the Smithsonian of the largest known ...

Researchers didn’t quite know what to do with Titanoboa. At first, they called it an ancient crocodile. Hailing from the earliest Colombian rain forests, a team of researchers from the University of ...