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The cyborg snake

Metal Snake could research the Enceladus moon's icy surface. But that system can also have many other missions. Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) system is a robot snake that can operate the surface of an icy moon or that robot can have a microwave or some other system that can melt holes into the icy shell. There that robot can swim in the ocean under the ice of that moon. 

The robot snakes can also operate on  Earth in many scientific and military missions. Robot snakes can research underwater structures and their flexible shape allows them to go in cramped places. So that kind of system can operate in the shipwrecks. If the robot is a multipurpose tool, that is suitable for many missions that guarantee funds for that project. 



"Illustration of the Exobiology Extant Life Surveyor (EELS) concept - Credit NASA/JPL-CalTech" (https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/how-we-do-it/systems/exobiology-extant-life-surveyor-eels/)


The robot snakes can be equipped with infrared or chemical sensors. So they can search for chemicals and humans. The Geiger meter allows those robot snakes to search the radioactive material. When the system where segmented radiation detectors see the target, that control system aims the snake in the direction where radiation comes. 

If the robot snake is masked as a sea snake. That system can observe sea animals without disturbing them. Other animals are avoiding highly poisonous sea snakes. And that camouflage gives the robot snake the ability to observe animals. The system can have active chameleon camouflage. In that case, the invisibility cloak covers the cyborg snake, which makes it invisible. 


Above: Paradise tree snake or Flying Snake. Singapore Zoo. (Wikipedia/Chrysopelea paradisi)


Those robot snakes can deliver from aircraft they might act like paradise tree snakes. When a cyborg snake falls from the aerial vehicle. It will turn into a helicopter- or "S" shape. And that rotating movement slows its speed. 

If the robot snake looks like a real snake it can deliver information about the behavior of animals. The same cyborg snakes can also operate as recon and intelligence tools. The robot snake can slip inside highly secured military bases. 

And then, it can record discussions and take images of the systems. The reconnaissance cyborg snakes also can have laser microphones and other things that make them very good observation tools. But the robot snakes can have cutters that make them cut wires and make holes in barriers. Those robot snakes can also carry explosives. 

Those snakes can operate as kamikaze drones. Or they can leave explosives at the right points. The cyborg snake can slip into the computer center and explode computers. Or they can have tanks with snake poison, which makes them excellent strike tools. 


https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/how-we-do-it/systems/exobiology-extant-life-surveyor-eels/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrysopelea_paradisi

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