Robotics Applications: General: Snake
Snake-Arm Robots (OC Robotics)
Lightweight, flexible manipulator arms. They look like a spinal column, made of lots of individual vertebrae, and can contort to any desired shape, to access hard to reach places.
Soryu V (Hirose Robotics Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Snake robot designed to slip into tiny spaces and that might be too dangerous for human rescuers.