Snakebot helped search through the rubble for survivors after last fall's Mexico City earthquake. Presenting the award were representatives from the Center for Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue (CRASAR ...

A robot that's developed something of a mythology over the years now has a new trick. Snakebot, named ground rescue robot of the year in 2017 and helping its creator win the "Oscars of automation" in ...

Howie Choset, a rambunctious roboticist who has been working on snake-like robots for decades at Carnegie Mellon University, has developed a new, ultra-slim snakebot that can crawl inside a small ...

Roboticist Matt Travers, center, with two Mexican Red Cross workers, prepares to deploy the snakebot into a collapsed apartment building in Mexico City on Friday, Sept. 22, 2017. The snakebot is ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway ...

Researchers have worked out exactly how a rattlesnake slithers through sand - and have taught a robot how to do it. They hope to develop a robosnake that can slither through tiny spaces to act as a ...