Killer Exploding Robot Snake! Killer Exploding Robot Snake!

The Israeli Defense Force has debuted a crazy new weapon in its ongoing fight against all of its surrounding countries plus numerous factions within it own country: the killer exploding robot snake.

I almost feel I don’t need to say more.  Description, plus video of the robot snake in action, after the jump.  

The spying robot, which is about two meters [six feet!] long and covered in military camouflage, mimics the movements and appearance of real snakes, slithering around through caves, tunnels, cracks and buildings, while at the same time sending images and sound back to a soldier who controls the device through a laptop computer.

Able to bend its joints so well that it can squeeze through very tight spaces, the new device will be used to find people buried under collapsed buildings.

Oh, ok, it’s the good kind of snake that rescues children from burning buildings like a fire hose snake, or rescues women from loneliness like a trouser snake!

But wait – the Jerusalem Post article casually slips this in there:

Besides recording multimedia, the snake may also be used to carry explosives.

Killer exploding robot snake!  Killer exploding robot snake!  Killer exploding robot snake!

The IDF has also dabbled in a few other projects:

The Ben-Gurion report also detailed other robot animals, including, a cat that climbs walls using its claws, and a “dog-droid” that responds to the human movements.

Robot cats with killer claws!  Lovable Sony AIBOs with sawed-off shotguns!  Robot cars that can drunk-drive themselves into the side of a Steak-n-Shake!  When will it end??

Source: Jerusalem Post via Geekologie.