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HUMRS during its March 2021 underwater demonstration. PHOTO SOURCE: Carnegie Mellon University
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a submersible, snakelike robot that could be used to inspect ships and underwater infrastructure, including offshore rigs and pipelines.
Last month a team from the Biorobotics Lab in the university’s School of Computer Science’s Robotics Institute tested the modular reptilian robot – formally known as the Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake (HUMRS) – in Carnegie Mellon’s swimming pool. According to a written statement from the university, the demonstration showcased HUMRS’ ease of control and ability to dive through underwater hoops and swim smoothly and precisely
What makes this snake-like robot so special?
Answer: It can swim! Shutterstock/Andrey Suslov
If you haven’t heard of Carnegie Mellon’s snakebot, it is basically what its name suggests. A long cylindrical robot that moves much like a snake, the snakebot has been engineered to do a number of things over the years including grabbing objects and climbing sand dunes. But the university’s latest iteration of the snakebot is taking it to new depths, literally.
The Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake (HUMRS) was made waterproof with adapted water-resistant modules that had been used to make the snakebot resistant to non-ideal conditions in the past. The team then added turbines and thrusters to propel the bot through the water, and presto!, they had a fully submersible swimming robot.
From Jimmy Fallon’s leg to deep beneath the sea, CMU’s snakebot can slither anywhere
Howie Choset actually doesn’t like snakes all that much. However, that hasn’t stopped the CMU Robotics Institute professor from developing a series of lifelike snake robots to perform dangerous tasks that can now operate underwater.
“Me personally, I’m afraid of snakes,” says Choset. “I don’t want to touch one. I don’t want to be near one. I know when I was a grad student, an office mate had one as a pet and I had nightmares because of it.”
Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University
Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University’s snake-like robot is seen being tested in a CMU pool.
Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University
Courtesy of Carnegie Mellon University
Carnegie Mellon University’s snake-like robot is seen being tested in a CMU pool.
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Carnegie Mellon University has developed a snake-like robot that can work underwater, making it a tool that could prove beneficial for inspecting boats and underwater infrastructure and completing other tasks.
A team from CMU’s School of Computer Science’s Robotics Institute’s Biorobotics Lab tested the Hardened Underwater Modular Robot Snake (HUMRS) last month in the university’s pool. The robot dove through underwater hoops, showcasing its precise and smooth swimming abilities and demonstrating its ease of control.