Robot Snakes Alive!!

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You may have thought the cockroach controlled robot was creepy, but witness this eerie little snake robot created at Carnegie Mellon University's biorobotics unit. These things will one day rule the earth, and there will be nowhere we can hide. Nowhere.

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Anonymous said…
I really fear for the future.
9 March 2008 at 00:17
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