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Flying Snakes Help Scientists Design New Robots

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Robots are designed to mimic the movements of animals, such as swimming and walking.

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Flying snakes usually undulate between 1-2 times per minute in their natural environment.

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Scientists are currently looking at how robots could mimic the glide motion of flying snakes.

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Virginia Tech and the University of Virginia researchers investigated the mechanism of lifting flying snakes.

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They move side-to-side from top to bottom, hopping between trees.

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The undulation allows snakes to glide long distances up to 25 meters away from a tower 15 meters high.

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The investigators created a computational model from a high-speed video of flying snakes to understand how undulations can provide lift.

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The cross-sectional shape that the snake's body takes is a key component of this model, which looks a lot like a flying disc or frisbee.

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It is important to understand how the snake glides so far by looking at its cross-sectional form.

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