From Wired UK, a report about a Carnegie Mellon robotic snake that can perch itself on poles and branches: “The Biorobotics Lab is something of a specialist in robotic snakes. Given a snake’s lack of limbs, feet and any additional appendages, their unique take on propulsion is an ideal one to replicate in robots designed to explore hard-to-reach locations. “These highly articulated devices can coordinate their internal degrees of freedom to perform a variety of locomotion capabilities that go beyond the capabilities of conventional wheeled and the recently-developed legged robots,” reads the lab’s site. ‘The true power of these devices is that they are versatile, achieving behaviors not limited to crawling, climbing, and swimming.'”