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The Israelis are working on this rather creepy robot snake, a reconnaissance device which fitfully flips and flaps across almost any terrain and captures some rather clear video along the way thanks to the big camera embedded in its head. So creepy is it that it seems to have startled the BBC reporter into this rather splendid description: “It’s able to cross incredible distances and slither and turn and twist through caves and tunnels and, and fields.”

This is a line worthy of Doctor Seuss himself, and fairly conjures up a nightmare world inhabited by writhing robots as they slide through the underbrush, watching our every move. Shudder. Of course, Hollywood will surely make use of this device, most likely in Terminator Snakes on a Plane or some such thing. For more, and better, movie suggestions, see Wired.com writer John Scott Lewinski’s “Top 5 Hollywood Answers to Israel’s New ‘Robot Snake’”.

Fonte: Wired

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