Olin College Sidewinder - Rectilinear Gait

This is footage of the Olin College Sidewinder, the last phase of a year-long robotic snake development project that took place from fall 2005 to spring 2006. In this clip the robot is demonstrating an exaggerated rectilinear gait, used by snakes to sneak up on prey slowly and silently. A vertical wave passes from the snakes tail to its head, and the snake propagates forward. This snake was developed by Gui Cavalcanti, Jonathan Tse, Elizabeth Kneen, Chris Dellin and Matthew Aasted, under the direction of Gill Pratt at the Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.