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Snakes
Snake-based sliding BEAMbots



Snakes are sliding BEAMbots that propel themselves via a horizontal wave motion. Only a few experimental ones have been built to date.

 

 

 

 

For more information...


You definitely want to check out "The Motion Dynamics of Snakes and Worms."

GMD's Collection of Snake-like Robots is a good set of links to pages on snake motion and robots modelled on snakes.


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