This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex Movies, And Other Mechanical Surprises

The Dog-Bark Snake Bot You’ve probably heard of robot snakes before, useful in search-and-rescue scenarios because they can worm their way into confined spaces–perhaps in collapsed buildings–that other machines can’t match. You may also know SAR teams sometimes use sniffer dogs to help them locate victims trapped in rubble. But you’ve probably never conflated these two notions, and pictured a SAR dog that has a slave snake-bot that it can deploy and control with a bark.

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This Week In Bots: Snakes, Barks, Vacuums, Sex Movies, And Other Mechanical Surprises