1999 – Slim Slime Snake Robot – Shigeo Hirose and Takeshi Aoki (Japanese)

Slim Slime Robot The Slim Slime robot is a robot made up of linearly connecting multiple modules that pneumatically bend and elongate. Inside a module (below), three metal bellows are arranged in parallel at regular intervals with an identical circumference. Both ends of each bellows are fixed with two disks, and the disks are connected …