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Weird Wide Web - Snakes than can walk?

───   15:10 Wed, 17 Aug 2022

Weird Wide Web - Snakes than can walk? | News Article

A man with engineering know-how has invented a robot suit that gives snakes the ability to "walk with legs".

In an article we found on dailystar, an LA based YouTuber, Allen Pan, felt so bad that snakes can't walk, that he invented a robot suit that gives snakes the ability to "walk with legs". 

A lover of snakes, Allen wanted to prove this love by giving snakes "back their legs".  

He explained in his video that snakes had legs about 100 to 150 million years ago but had since evolved to the point where they could survive without them - and it's thought to be due to a genetic mutation.

"I actually feel bad for snakes; they lost their legs and nobody is even trying to find them - except for me," Allen explained.  

"When any other animal has deformed legs, humanity comes together to spit in God's face and we built that animal awesome new cyborg legs."

The concept that Allen has, is to have an apparatus that a snake "could choose to put on or take off", so he used a long plastic open tube where the snake will be able to fit in.

Attached to the tubes are four robotic legs, which can be activated wirelessly and programmed on a laptop.

To put his design to test, Allen visited a snake breeder and had one of his snakes test drive the robot.

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