The research is funded by DARPA, and last year, GE shared a heftier version of this robot for tunneling through the soil.The Pipe-worm, on the other hand, is imagined to serve as a critical ...

Now under the GE umbrella, the robot carries the name Pipe-worm (Programmable Worm for Irregular Pipeline Exploration). It combines fluid-powered muscles with a system of cockroach-inspired ...

Chinese scientists have developed a tiny wormlike robot that can wiggle into very small pipes to inspect them with an endoscopic camera. The development team at Tsinghua University said on May 25,… ...

In 1986, cases of Guinea worm disease numbered more than 3.5 million worldwide. Now, globally, there are only 126 cases left, Carter announced this week during the unveiling of a new exhibit at ...

A modular worm robot and jellyfish demonstrate the benefits of "embodied energy" -- an approach that incorporates power sources into the body of a machine, to reduce its weight and cost.

Now under the GE umbrella, the robot carries the name Pipe-worm (Programmable Worm for Irregular Pipeline Exploration). Carnegie Mellon University, for one, has been developing them for a long ...

Carnegie Mellon University, for one, has been developing them for a long time, as has NASA. This giant earthworm robot, meanwhile, actually started life as part of DARPA’s Underminer program designed ...