| Snake Bots You may not love snakes, but you'd be happy to see one of these snake robots if you were trapped in a collapsed building. Check out the snakebots in this episode of Innovation Nation with Miles O'Brien. |
| Credit: National Science Foundation |
And this would equally apply to an underground mining emergency, or even a new wa of mining very thin seams of ore!
http://www.nsf.gov/news/mmg/mmg_disp.cfm?med_id=70984
Also note my earlier post on mine rescue potential of robots.
http://indagopartners.blogspot.com/2011/09/robots-could-save-lives-in-mine.html
