A Serpentine Template for an All-Terrain Robot (Part of the Robotics Special Issue) (1 of 11) (IMAGE)

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A Serpentine Template for an All-Terrain Robot (Part of the Robotics Special Issue) (1 of 11)

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A sidewinder rattlesnake moving on sand. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Oct. 2014, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by Hamidreza Marvi at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA, and colleagues was titled, 'Sidewinding with minimal slip: Snake and robot ascent of sandy slopes.'

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[Credit: Adam Thompson]

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