Swimming Snake Robot Is Not Scary, Just Wants to Make Sure Navy Ships Are OK

This underwater robot snake looks like fun, but it has an important job to do. The result of a collaboration between the Carnegie Mellon University, the ARM Institute and the Department of Defense, this modular robot that can swim is designed to inspect ships and submarines. Checking ships and submarines for damage is not an easy task. And it’s not cheap, either. It takes considerable effort for divers to actually go and inspect...