Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

Oh Great, Surgeons Want To Shove These Robot Snakes Down Our Throats

In addition to completely freaking us out , it turns out that the robotic snakes being developed at universities like Carnegie Mellonsome serve some practical purposes as well. A company called Medrobotics Corporation will soon begin marketing robot snake-assisted surgical device designed to crawl down a patient’s throat. Yeah, that’s far less creepy.

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Being Trapped In a Building Seems Less Scary Than This Robot Snake Rescuing You

We’ve been pretty harsh on Carnegie Mellon University’s artificial snake, which, admittedly, is an impressive piece of robotic engineering. But seeing it randomly writhe around while it tries to make its way across the floor and over obstacles will never not be unsettling. More »

No No No. That Creepy Robot Snake Strangles on Contact Now

We’ve been following the development of Carnegie Mellon’s robotic snake for some time now. And as much as it’s a brilliant piece of technology, it’s also downright scary how realistically it can slither across the ground or up a tree. But it turns out that’s no where near as unsettling as its latest trick. More »

This Tiny Slithering Snake Robot Has Its Cyclopean Eye on You

Snake robots have a staggering ability to be both graceful and terrifying, but this one developed by CMU Biorobotics is just cute. And it could help save your life someday by slithering through debris and surveying the scene with its cyclopean eye. More »

Guam’s Solving Its Snake Problem With a Horrifying Rain of Poisoned Mouse Paratroopers

Guam has a problem with brown tree snakes. Specifically, it has two million brown tree snakes, and they’re slowly decimating other native species. So scientists have come up with a solution, the only logical one really: fill a bunch of dead mice with painkillers, give each corpse a tiny parachute, and throw them all out of helicopters into the jungle. No but really. More »

This Robotic Water Snake is Both Graceful and Utterly Terrifying

Do snakes freak you out? How about the idea of being hunted down and killed by robots either of their own accord, or on orders from someone else? If you said yes to either of those questions, chances are you’ll find this video a little freaky, but enthralling nonetheless. More »

This 26 Pound 36,000 Calorie Gummy Python Will Probably Still Kill You

Ironically, dying at the hands of a real python would probably be less agonizing than the prolonged torture of consuming this eight foot long, 26 pound, 36,720 calorie gummy snake. You can grab one in Blue Raspberry/Green Apple or Red Cherry/Blue Raspberry for $150; just make sure your last will and testament is complete before ordering. More »

We Need To Stop Developing These Creepy Pole Climbing Robot Snakes Immediately [Video]

Watching this robotic snake almost effortlessly slither its way up a pole and onto this researcher’s arm leads to one obvious conclusion—this research must be stopped. Like immediately. More »