Remember that cool Amphibious Robot Snake that was covered here at GeekAlerts back in June? It looks like that snake has a sister named Anna Konda, living on land and spending her days fighting fires.

The robot is to our knowledge the biggest and strongest snake robot in the world and also the first water hydraulic snake robot ever constructed.

Here’s a video demonstration of Anna Konda in action:

Technical Data

• Length: 3 m
• Weight: 75 kg
• Number of DOFs: 20
• Angular flexion in each joint: +/- 33 degrees
• Actuators: Water hydraulic cylinders
• Max system pressure: 100 bar (1450 PSI)
• Max torque (at 100 bar): 300 Nm

Visit SINTEF for more info and photos of Anna Konda – the Firefighting Snake Robot.

Via a bunch a great blogs:

• BotJunkie
• Gadget Venue
• Gearfuse
• Geeky Gadgets
• Gizmología
• SlipperyBrick
• TechFresh
• Ubergizmo
• UberReview
• Walyou

Lisco, created by the Finnish designer Laurent Hongisto, is a USB cable that you can wear in a fashionable manner, like a bracelet around your wrist.

You can use the USB snake to recharge your mobile through your laptop while travelling, transfer your pictures from your camera or just use it as a data cable for your portable hard drives.

Head over to Yanko Design for some more pictures of the Lisco USB Snake.

ACM-R5 is the name of this awesome, and quite scary, amphibious robot snake – developed by the people at the Hirose Fukushima Lab in Japan.

ACM-R5 is equipped with paddles and passive wheels around the body. To generate propulsive force by undulation, the robot need a resistance property as it glides freely in tangential direction but cannot in normal direction. Due to the paddles and passive wheels, ACM-R5 obtains that character both in water and on ground.

Here’s a video demonstration of the robot snake in the water:

The control system of ACM-R5 is an advanced one. Each joint unit has CPU, battery, motors, so they can operate independently. Through communication lines each unit exchanges signals and automatically recognizes its number from the head, and how many units join the system. Thanks to this system operators can remove, add, and exchange units freely and they can operate ACM-R5 flexibly according to situations.

Read more about the ACM-R5 robot snake over at Hirose Fukushima Lab.

(Via Geekologie)

WowWee’s robot snake, the Roboboa, is now available in the USA for $99.99.

This is the advanced robot snake with powerful infrared sensor technology that doubles as a mobile intelligent flexible light, party snake, and alarm clock.

Here’s a video demonstration of the Roboboa:

Features:

• Thinks for himself but follows your every command
• 3-eyed "alien" vision really sees, tracks and follows
• Dazzling LED lights and sounds reveal his many moods
• Rotates, swivels, spins, lifts and roves around
• Multiple play modes
• Three "shooting" guard modes
• 16 hours “time-shift” alarm function
• Interacts with other Wowwee robots
• Program sequences up to 40 steps long
• Over 40 functions from easy-to-use flashlight remote controller
• Recommended age 8 and up

Head over to Robots Rule for more information about the robot snake.

Thanks to Robert Oschler!