A ballerina from the English National Ballet dances next to a two - meter - high golem snake in the grass , which looks every bit as graceful as she does . Maybe the future of robotics is n’t trip the light fantastic toe slight mechanical man or cute puppy , but a overnice sinuous snake in the grass that can slither around your home clean your floors and picking up after you . They could be received equipment in every home within a few years . Click through for more cool robot images from the Streetwise Robots effect at the London Science Museum ’s Dana Centre .
The snake - bot is the work of Merlin Robotics , Nottingham Trent University and the Edinburgh College of Art . Also on display : the Shadow Robot troupe ’s dexterous hand robot , which uses 40 Air Muscles to attain 24 movements . It ’s the most advanced golem hired hand on Earth . ( At first , the Getty Images caption were a tad perplexing , and made it seem as though the deft hand was part of the robot snake . Which conjured some honestly outre mental look-alike . )
Images by Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images .
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