Hydras Snakebots, Snake Robot Construction Workers

As we know, building or bridge is not easy work. Not infrequently the accident occurred at the time construction is running. Departure from all that, there are plans to create Snakebot. Snakebot can handle the construction work is dangerous and maintenance.

Snakebot can sneak through a narrow place, swimming in lakes, plants, and even glide through the air. Snakebot can overcome some of the work is dangerous.



Equality: Animals through the additional artificial intelligence with the same snakebot that can keep people from dangerous places.

From Virginia Tech University, Dennis Hong and Gabriel Goldman said their robot, called Hydras, which can quickly roll up and down the pillars and columns, which is designed to check the bridge, construction sites and high-rise building, tasks that injure more than 1,000 people per year.

Combination of innovative design engineers make the Hydras become ideal climber. Furthermore, snakebots can wiggle in the long series of connected metal and rubber modules - pace back, his joints can move up and down or side to side. Hydras that combines the two movements in each joint, so close to its grip when shin.

Goldman said that he could easily fill up with Hydras ultrasound Scanners and cameras, so it can check the bridge and the building of the possibility of cracks or damage. But now, Snakebot was in the lab. "We want to make it more flexible, so that the robot can only wrap around the pole and then go away."