Snakes actively adjust their friction, Marvi explained, by modifying
the relative angle between their scales and the surface, to adjust the
levels of friction according to their needs.
Marvi and his colleagues adopted these principles to create Scalybot,
an artificial robot designed to climb inclined planes. Scalybot
contains scale-like teeth along the bottom of its body, and these teeth
can raise or lower depending on what it needs to do to navigate the
environment.
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