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Snakes and snake-like robots show how sidewinders conquer sandy slopes

The amazing ability of sidewinder snakes to quickly climb sandy slopes  
was once something biologists only vaguely understood and roboticists  
only dreamed of replicating. By studying the snakes in a unique bed of  
inclined sand and using a snake-like robot to test ideas spawned by  
observing the real animals, both biologists and roboticists have now  
gained long-sought insights.
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