We have seen many robots that function in different ways such as robots performing household work, swimming in water, delivering snakes, and even dancing on the floor. But CMU Snakebot is the first robot of its nature that can climb trees. It is a great advancement in robots world though yet it is under development process at Carnegie Mellon’s Biorobotic Lab. Its design is very much similar to old created Omnitread robot that was also a robot like snake with treads like train on it. It was able to slip into small places.
Thing that makes the CMU Snakerobot more interesting is that it cannot only creep into small places but also climb the trees up to 1 meter off the ground with help of its trunk. It can also climb your leg. A researcher from the Biorobotic Lab Carnegie Mellon University said: “From the Biorobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University, a snake robot (Snakebot) demonstrates how it can climb a tree and look around. Please keep in mind that this robot climbed a specific tree with a specific trunk width about 1 meter off of the ground. The researchers working to design, build and program these robots still have much work to do to get these bots to climb taller trees of various sizes and to navigate over branches and wires.”
Let’s have a look at the video in which we can see the robot climbing tree.
