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Engineer designed robotic legs for a snake - it liked them

By: Maksim Panasovskiy | 16.08.2022, 12:44

Allen Pan, an engineer from Los Angeles, decided to give snakes the legs back they lost during evolution.

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The design consists of two pairs of legs and a long plastic tube with holes on either side. The legs were modeled from a lizard and printed on a 3D-printer. They are actuated by two servomotors and activated wirelessly.

The engineer tested his design on a toy snake before trying out the mechanism on a live one. In creating the frame, Allen Pan was inspired by the three-toed skink (Chalcides striatus). It is a lizard with four small legs that looks more like a snake.

Source: Allen Pan

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