Robotic tentacles:
Each Octarm is powered by compressed air and has surface pressure sensors, positional sensors and a camera mounted at its tip. This allows the limb to nimbly investigate pipes, tunnels and other narrow spaces.
The Octarms developed so far are each around a metre long, although the design could easily be scaled up or down, the researchers say. Only one has been attached to a robot at a time, but the researchers say several could work together in future.
MPEG, 55MB. (Doesn't play in Quicktime, but VLC can play it.)
Why do I want to brush my teeth all of a sudden?
I can't help but think an elephant would be cheaper. A little larger of course, but that is what the breeding programs are for.
that's good news for people who lose coke cans down long tubes.
Ew.
That tentacle looks like that stripey kind of toothpaste.
It plays in QuickTime if you have the MPEG-2 component installed.
Clearly someone should give me a copy of that, then...
Oh boy.