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Meet RoBoa: A Life-Saving, Snake-Like Robot

An ETH Zurich team of engineers has developed RoBoa, a snake-like robot with the ability to grow in length and slither into the most inaccessible places.

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    00:00:00 [Music] we have developed a snake like robot called toora which moves in a very special way to go when no human drone or other robot can go we use robor to do industrial inspection and also for search and rescue we are a team of mechanical and robotics engineers from the autonomous systems lab of eth CC and we have developed roora in parallel to

    00:00:22 our studies and now that we've graduated we are fully focusing on bringing Robo to the market thanks to the way our robot moves we can basically go over any surface whether it's sticky dirty or has a lot of gravel robor uses a special growth based Locomotion it's basically a soft fabric tube that grows into the environment minimizes friction while eliminating the need for traction around

    00:00:48 this principle we've built a robot with steering as well as sensors for data collection we use soft materials for all moving Parts which makes it very safe with human interaction it uses pressurized air which also reduces the risk of Sparks in explosive environments koraa is great for inspecting pipes sewers or tanks in Industries like Wastewater power or

    00:01:13 chemicals it's also great for search and rescue for example after an earthquake Hora can go into a collapsed building search for victims localize them communicate with them and Supply them with liquids we worked with the Swiss rescue troops on a robot which can navigate through very confined space spaces and we realized quite quickly that traction and wheel-based Locomotion

    00:01:34 doesn't work well so our professor Roland sigart um suggested this very special growing based Locomotion which proved to work very well not only in certain rescue applications but also in other and now it's very exciting to bring this Innovation to the market