we need to put one of these snakes under the ice ocean on titan to find alien life

THE SNAKES FROM TERMINATOR SALVATION!! Beta edition :O

Wow, when it's in the water it actually looks like it's alive... that's a great accomplishment. it's a thing of beauty even.

This thing workes so much better in water! You could make some really awesome looking stuff with that!

It's kind of gimpy on land, but I can see a huge range of uses for under-water surveying. That's really amazing how it moves through the water with such grace and ease. :)

They are so graceful in the water it's amazing.

I've never seen a robot move so well through it's environment. I suppose it makes sense that it's easier to make something that navigates oceans easier than it is to make something that navigates the land. The time in evolutionary standards is billions of years!

It seems to almost come to life in the water. Impressive little thing I think in the 5 years since this video was posted we have made even more impressive things

would be ideal do dunk these in the ocean fitted with heat sensing cameras to find bodies in the ocean during a search. or it would all illuminate when it has found a sign of heat or scanned for a body like shape

It`s fantastic! Looks like sci-fi movie :)

The MOST epic thing EVER!

What a cool invention ! I want one for a christmas :D

2011 Years of Technology... it's about freaking time we got robot's!!!

I want one, not a joke, I will break in there and steal it. That is some awesome robotics.

The ability of the automonous robotic snake is remarkable. Will the robotic snake be tested in a open lake environment? The robot does seem to have the ability to hover in the water, amazing.

This can have so many uses for underwater research/etc...

It looks so cute!! :D

Well fellow humans.. it was nice knowing you. I for one, welcome out new robot overlords.

yupp.... Just what we need !!! Japanese robot monster amphibious snake machines. Absolutely bizarre and incredible.

I thought this was in existence when I was 5, and asked for it for christmas. Then again, christ-santa probably wouldn't have approved of my objectives.

that is the coolest thing i ever seen.

@eddydxmon that might be one of the medical aplications when they make smaller ones discovery channel said it will be used as a model for tiny medical robotics.

Put that on the bottom of a big public pool, sit on the lifeguard stand, and wait til the pool fills up and turn it on and let it swim, the pool would turn yellow because of how many people piss their pants thinking its a huge snake.

I would like to see them somehow actually replicate the undulating caterpillar like mechanics that some snakes use to move.

its interesting how it looks better and moves better when its in the water

That looked amazing in the water

Very awesome!!!

This is why i wish Robot wars was still on TV!

That is so damn awesome. I want one.

Perfect for underwater exploration! You'd just have to color it like a REAL sea snake, so that it wouldn't get gobbled up. ;D

wow amazing best sanke like robot ive seen

I think it was, and the wheels just gave it an easier surface to move upon.

wow, this is like that tree-climbing robot. Look at them squirm around on the ground, and you almost start laughing. But once they get into their proper element, they become something else entirely.

Soon they have these flying in the air coming down at you like Neo on that chair he sat on in the Matrix rebirth scene... creepy cool toy.

TRUE !

that's cool as hell!

sweet that could be used for so much

that would be perfect to explore very deep in the seas...

It is amazing how much more mobile it is under water! I wonder what they have it programed to be doing?

brilliant ... i wish i could work on something like this

wow man. the first thing that went through my mind at 0:39 was "Holy shit! Get out of the water, it's a hydrobot!!"

Imagine finding THAT swimming around in your pool!

That would easily be some of the scariest shit ever. One of these popping out of your toilet.

They should make a REALLY big one, attach a type of cam-corder on it, and make it take videos of unknown creatures :D

How freaky is that! It looks so organic when it's swimming.

This thing is ominous looking. There is some pretty scary stuff out in the ocean. I was surfing at the beach and just treading water hanging off the board and the entire bottom of my foot kicked something so it had to be pretty big. I caught the next wave and stood on the beach was pretty freaked. Took a while to get the nerve up to go back in.

I, for one, welcome our new snake overlords

water seems to be a good environment for robots. that video is scary and impressive at once. oh btw: i dropped my iphone into the water, but it is still working ;-)

this should be used for exploring underwater

Felicidades ! Excelente Robot anfibio ojala hagan transporte urbano de este tipo de tecnología y modelo

That thing joins forces with the British SkyNet (controlling Hunter-killer drones), and Cyberdyne from Japan who are making exoskeletons to create: "Cyberdyne systems" and the Terminators. in fact that is a prototype for the Hydrobot.

it begins!

thats boss. lots of applications for that, if more things added to it.

now, all it needs is a stereoscopic view, some infrared, nightvision and stuff and maybe a shocker on the front and it can be used for espionage, can it?

How does it control dive depth or vary it's buoyancy, or whatever it has to do to be so amazing?

@wumblr Right up there with fixing the global pollution problem

i wonder how much that thing would cost. Its AMAZING!!!

I'm impressed.... and scared.

All hail snake overlords, kings of land and sea...

Thats cool! Though I would be scared half to death if it was in my pool.

wow, if i turned this thing on i'd be jumping around for hours. looks like fun.

How beautiful.

It looks awesomely natural underwater...

Haha! That's cheeting, it has wheels!

imagine the pranks you could do with that

I knew real snakes could swim in water. But damn if this isn't slightly creepy. Fascinating though.

This...is.awesome

I wonder if it's controlled remotely or if it's programmed to react to it's surroundings. The video didn't show a remote control, but that would be the most logical means of direction

lol imagine swimming in the ocean and finding 1 of those D:

yeh that robot is impressive, cool to test it in the pool everybody would freak out lol

its just creepy how fluid it moves underwater like it is a real snake. On land it looks kinda corny like it is wiggling to get around. But under water it looks real fluid and turns on a dime. That is some creepy shit!

ive heard of rattlesnake cook offs in texas, its probably just not around you because texas is one big ass state

first i thought it was creepy but when i saw it moving underwater...wow! :D

I bow down to the engineers.

it's almost as if it learned how to swim at first...that was crazy

wohooa! now thats impressive INDEED!

It looks like a flexible torpedo. I smell military funding in the future.

wow. that's pretty cool.

that thing is wicked!!!!

dude that thing was crazy in the water it should be in movies

unfortunatly that's one of the limitations of engineering, at one point or another you'll need to compromise.

oh very nice.

reminds me of that thing from war of the worlds. really cool tho

It already has a cam on its schnozz.

Looks like a real living creature when submerged.

It's pretty cool underwater

,ok, but what the hell ELSE does this thing do besides slither and swim?!?!?! LOL! LOL!

i think i know wat i want for christmas!

proprio fregno non ci sono altre parole per definirlo!!!

it moves so natural!!!!!

it would probably bust from all that pressure...

as I said on twitter, I want one to walk it down the street on a leash lol. and yes holy sh*t that thing scares the hell out of me too lol

Wow! You gotta put some foam rubber skin on that thing and let it loose in some local swiming holes...... You could seriously make the most realistic giant snake hoax EVER! I mean.....if ya would want to. For me it would be my primary objective.

thats amazing

This is so motherfking cool.

the cameraman can hold his breath for a really long time!!!

Underwater it looks amazing! On land it looks kind of derpy with those little wheels, why can't it undulate to move on land like a real snake?

what movie ?

they've already made that, except that they don't bend they just move forward like a worm.

an interesting work of awesome enginneering I would like to see it in action.....well until it starts to work with Skynet XD