Snake Robot: The New Innovation

So let’s meet with the new innovations in robotics that is solving problems by combining two things that don’t quite seem to go together at first thought.
Today ever enlarging circles will take you on a little journey of probabilities when it comes to pure gumption.
Did you ever stop to ask yourself why most of us start visualizing the human form when we think of the word “Robot?”
Having the flaccidity and movements of a meander reptile allows these robots to wring into spaces that their human-form, mechanical cousins, and we humans, have not been able to probe. They can do so much more than we expect, we will be able to diagnose structural problems in hidden places, perform minimally presumptuous surgery, and find remnants in feeble search and rescue missions (to name a few applications).
This splendid innovation, which certainly has adopted looks from a little friend in nature. It is just one incredible example of bio mimicry; a growing field of science at the intersection of engineering, design, and biology.
After we get over the inclination to recoil from how snake-like it is, we can see that this robot has some unimaginable abilities and applications.
So, what really is the potential for the snake robot?
Just think of those many dirty jobs which is performed by humans, endanger lives or the jobs that require connection to small spaces, spaces that even traditional robots, with extremity or wheels, could never access. Consider the contingency of assisting in minimally-invasive surgery, for investigation of power plants, for aiding in search and rescue efforts, in archaeological sneer.
When you think about all of the fields of work and self-restraint of study in which we humans are matched, and the number of correlated problems we are trying to solve, it becomes clear that the snake robot has an extensive amount of potential.
Snake robots aren’t just interesting eerie crawlies, they offer us a chance to explore our world and enhance our experience.

By: Tripti Varun
Content: https://everwideningcircles.com/2015/12/11/snake-robots-can-you-watch-this-without-squirming/?is_circle=45548