A seemingly ordinary snake faces its worst nightmare when it meets an unexpected opponent—a squirrel. What starts as an easy meal for the snake quickly turns into a battle it cannot win. Squirrels, ...

The improved LOS helps the snake robot to steer aggressively at a sharp turning point. Furthermore, to avoid the side-slip caused by the ground friction change, an integral controller is introduced in ...

This paper presents a rigid-soft hybrid drive snake-like surgical robot for MIS. The design concept and kinematic analysis of the robot are introduced. The proposed continuum robot has a shoulder ...