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Snakebots, courtesy Carnegie Mellon University

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Autonomous robots are not creepy enough, so now CMU's professor Howie Choset has gone and made them snakelike. They can undulate across the floor, they can wrap around things, they can shimmy up your leg, and they can combine two of your correspondent's phobias in one slithery package. The video has to be seen to be believed. Now if you'll excuse me I have to go nail my door shut.

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