Researchers Study Real Sidewinder Snakes To Improve Sidewinding Robots

Mashable 2014-10-10

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Researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University, Oregon State University, and Zoo Atlanta tapped into the power of Mother Nature to solve a robotics problem.

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