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Move over C-3PO, here comes Snakebot CSIRO Media Release – 12 February 2008 Ref 08/26

Erika Davies, who is working on sensors to taste chemicals in the environment	Snakebot – a robot, currently a simulation, with possible search and rescue applications
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Daniel Barrett with Snakebot, a modular, self-repairing, snake-like robot	Nic Warren makes risky business less risky, working out how financial institutions can plan for one in a thousand year loss events
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Simon Powys is on a quest to help develop a biodegradable coffee cup, to stop us getting buried under a mountain of polystyrene.
Image credit – Mark Fergus, CSIRO
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Snakebot in action
Video credit – Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO	Video credit – Mikhail Prokopenko, CSIRO
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