Watch This Snake Robot Grip Whatever It Touches

Just stay away from our necks, snake 'bot. We've seen Carnegie Mellon University's modular snake robots before, and it looks like one of them has learned a new trick. Throw it at a tree branch or field goal post or some other cylindrical object, and the 'bot will wrap itself around it, holding on wherever it lands. Accelerometers in the snake's body detect when it runs into an object, and when it notices it's hit something, wraps around it. Why does it do that? Uh, well, this is part of the stat...