Geeky Gadgets 11:59 am A research team at Carnegie Mellon has pushed the development of the previously unveiled robot snake underwater, making it capable of swimming fully submerged. The team from the Biorobotics Lab in the School of Computer Science’s Robotics Institute started working on the underwater robot snake in July 2020 and by March 2021, had developed and built a swimming prototype. “The robot’s modular design allows it to adapt to different tasks, whether squeezing through tight spaces under rubble, climbing up a tree or slithering around a corner underwater. For the underwater robot snake, the team used existing watertight modules that allow the robot to operate in bad conditions. They then added new modules containing the turbines and thrusters needed to maneuver the robot underwater.”