SNAKE ROBOT TAUGHT ‘TERRIFYING’ STRANGLE TRICK

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have been working on a robotic snake that could be used for rescue or scouting purposes and other similar applications, but it has demonstrated a new feature that has some slightly concerned.

A video released by the university earlier this week shows how the robot will snap on and cling to whatever it touches when thrown. As GeekOSystem melodramatically put it, this “terrifying” demonstration shows how it “automatically [constricts] around whatever it comes in contact with — a tree branch, say, or your neck [...].”
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