Swimming Robot Snake For Pool Parties January 15, 2007

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If snakes tend to make your stomach flip, your sphincter tighten and your skin crawl, do not watch this video.

For the rest of you, including me, press play now. This is not new to the Web but it is to me [thanks bro] – so don’t bother flaming me. This is just about the coolest robotic snake I have seen in action and, the fact that it is also capable of swimming, makes it even more so. This is so much better than the OmniTread.

The ACM-R5 comes from Japan [surprise, surprise], sports a small camera, lights and is powered by a lithium-ion battery that will allow it to swim menacingly for up to 30 minutes. Just look at how smooth the swimming action and you can see the possibilities for carnage and terror down at your local pool.

The audio is Japanese but you’ll get the gist.-Martin Lynch

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