A MILITARY reconnaissance robot being developed at a lab in London can keep moving even if it gets damaged on the battlefield. When any of the snake-like robot’s “muscle” segments are damaged, clever software “evolves” a different way for it to wriggle across any terrain.
The serpentine spy is a research project funded by aerospace company BAE Systems to make a low-cost military robot that can be dropped out of helicopters to carry out reconnaissance missions. Because it isn’t wheeled, the low-profile, ground-hugging snakebot should make a versatile battlefield spy. The team behind it has also developed a shape-changing antenna…
