Robotic Snails

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Yet another robot animal has come to save us all. Made by a research team at MIT, the RoboSnail was created to mimic the snail’s unique ability to travel on all kinds of strange surfaces.

The key to the snail’s crawling technique is the slime that it travels on. This material is special in that it reacts specifically to different forces applied upon it, and with stretching and contractions, the snails are able to move smoothly. In the RoboSnail, this slime is replicated with Carbopol Gel, which has similar mucus-like properties to snail slime. Then, different plates are shifted, one by one, to replicate the contracting motions of the snail.

The RoboSnail will hopefully be assisting on search-and-rescue missions in the future, as a robot to partake in these must have the ability to traverse many complex surfaces. Also, in the future, if the RoboSnail can be made much smaller, it can possibly have medical implications, crawling through the thin blood vessels of humans.

http://news.discovery.com/videos/tech-robotic-snails-may-save-lives.html

And another version:

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/mit/2670-mits-robotic-snail-video.htm

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