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 ...

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 ...

Electric car company Tesla has unveiled a prototype charger for its vehicles that automatically (and creepily) finds the car's charging port and fills it with power, without the driver having to do ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If the boxy Opportunity rover could elicit years of anthropomorphized love and goodwill, then surely Earthlings will warm to the idea of sending a snake-shaped robot to the moon. This robot—the ...

The sight of several robotic snakes slithering down a hallway together is enough to most people the heebie-jeebies. But Greek researchers believe teams of coordinated snake-like robots could someday ...

So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway ...