Hybrid robot merges flier with two snakelike machines

Gadget could one day serve on search-and-rescue missions

three-robot hybrid

AIR AND LAND  A three-robot hybrid uses two wheeled, bent snakebots and a four-propeller helicopter to travel by land or air, individually or as a team.

Modular Robotics Lab/Univ. of Pennsylvania

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CHICAGO­ —“Snakes on a plane” might be a good strategy for building rescue robots.