The graceful and agile movements of animals are difficult to analyze and emulate because
locomotion is the result of a complex interplay of many components: the central and …

The inspiration for snake robots comes from biological snakes. Snakes display superior
mobility capabilities and can move over virtually any type of terrain, including narrow and …

Snake robots have advantages of terrain adaptability over wheeled mobile robots and
traditional articulated robot arms because of their limbless thin body structure and high …

This manuscript describes a unique class of locomotive robot: A soft robot, composed
exclusively of soft materials (elastomeric polymers), which is inspired by animals (eg, squid …

Limbless organisms such as snakes can navigate nearly all terrain. In particular, desert-
dwelling sidewinder rattlesnakes (Crotalus cerastes) operate effectively on inclined granular …

The design of a hyper-redundant serial-linkage snake robot is the focus of this paper. The
snake, which consists of many fully enclosed actuators, incorporates a modular architecture …

The Carnegie Mellon University Biorobotics Laboratory was invited to bring snake robots to
Mexico City to assist with search and rescue efforts in the wake of the September 2017 …

This paper presents a method for designing the gait of a snake robot that moves in a
complicated environment. We propose a method for expressing the target form of a snake …

The snake robot, which mimics the mechanism of real snakes, is expected to be used in
various environments. This article addresses the challenge of snake robots autonomously …

We have developed several innovative designs for a new kind of robot that uses a
continuous wave of peristalsis for locomotion, the same method that earthworms use, and …