Carnegie Mellon snake robots deployed to search for survivors in Venezuela earthquake rubble

A Carnegie Mellon University team brought 3 snake robots to Venezuela to search the rubble of collapsed buildings after the June 24 double earthquakes, working for three days from June 30 to July 3 without finding survivors. Each snake robot is 4 feet long and uses replaceable modular segments; operators control them with a gamepad and a tethered laptop, while software algorithms autonomously coordinate the body segments to move from point A to point B. The team previously deployed similar robots in the 2017 Mexico City earthquake.