SnakeBots suitable access to difficult spaces

A Study an Future Applicability of Snake Robot – Revolution in Automation Process

Robotics is now been majorly used in industry’s, surgery, airplanes, ships and communication. Snake robot are automating systems that provides compelling enhancement in the efficiency of surgery and infiltration of spaces that were previously impenetrable. These are portable devices and are extension to existing robotic arms. It is also known as Snakebot and resembles to that of biological snakes.

The first snake like robot was built by Prof. Hirose in 1972. These snake robots comes in different sizes, shapes & designs. These are pretty mobile and are built on hardware and software technology. It has two significant qualities, one of the quality is its ability to maneuver through and move into confined spaces.

The other quality includes the ability to change the shape of its body that allows them to perform in wide range of circumstances, such as climbing tree trunks or climbing stairs. Furthermore, most snake robots are composed by chaining a number of independent links together. This adds redundancy in snake robots that makes them resistant to breakdown, even if the some part of the robots being destroyed.

For instance, recently a 7.1 magnitude earthquake had struck Mexico City wherein the snake robots where used for search and rescue operations to look for survivors. These snake robots provide assistance to rescue workers by reaching into fragile and difficult situations so that they could see things that they otherwise could not.

The snake robot leverages a new innovative technique for robotic movement that is beneficial for users by providing suitable access to difficult spaces. Also, it is used in undersea for inspection purpose.