Maintaining large electrical grids is a difficult and often dangerous task. Power lines stretch across vast distances, pass ...

A team from the Guandu District Power Supply Bureau in China has developed robotic snakes capable of inspecting power lines ...

We’ve sung the mildly disturbing praises of Carnegie Mellon’s robot snakes before, but you have to check out this clip of their robosnake navigating a trap. This ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Engineers at ETH Zurich have developed a mechanical snake designed to access and inspect areas that are unreachable by other ...