Oct 30, 2014
A Serpentine Template for an All-Terrain Robot A study revealing how side-winding snakes scale sandy slopes -- a difficult feat -- is helping scientists improve terrestrial robots. It may even help them build a bot capable of navigating terrain that rolling robots cannot, like the hills inside a collapsed mine. Read more about this research from the 10 October issue of Science here. [Image courtesy of Nico Zevallos and Chaohui Gong. Please click here for more information.] © 2014 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All Rights Reserved.