Snake Robots Market Shares, Strategy, and Forecasts, 2011 to 2017

Table of Contents

 

 Snake Robots Executive Summary 

 

Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts  ES-1

Snake Robot Market Driving Forces  ES-1

Snake Robots Market Shares  ES-3

Snake Robot Market Forecasts  ES-5

 

 Snake Robots Market Description and Market Dynamics 

 

1. Snake Robots Market Description and Market Dynamics  1-1

1.1   Snake Robots Are Different 1-1

1.2   Modsnake Robots  1-2

1.2.1    Modsnake Robots Support Human Workers  1-3

1.3   Snakelike Robots Slither over Rough Landscape  1-4

1.4   Snake Robots Locomote  1-4

1.5   Serpentine Robot Applications  1-5

1.5.1    Seizing the Robotics Opportunity  1-6

1.5.2    Modular Self-Reconfiguring Robotic Systems  1-7

1.6   Public Aware That Robotics Have “Arrived”  1-7

1.7   Next Generation Snake Robotics  1-9

 

 Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts 

 

2. Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts  2-1

2.1   Snake Robot Market Driving Forces  2-1

2.2   Snake Robots Market Shares  2-3

2.3   Snake Robot Variety of Applications  2-6

2.3.1    OC Robotics Snake-Arm for Aircraft Assembly  2-6

2.3.2    Minimally Invasive Equipment Surgical Robots  2-7

2.3.3    Cardioarm Is A Jointed Robot 2-8

2.3.4    SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes  2-9

2.3.5    University of Southampton. 2-9

2.3.6    CCTV Inspection  2-10

2.4   Snake Robot Market Forecasts  2-11

2.4.1    Cardiac Surgery Snake Robots Market Forecasts  2-14

2.4.2    Cardiorobotics Initial Goal Is To Help Avoid

Open-Heart Surgery  2-14

2.4.3    Minimally Invasive Surgery Positioning:

Cardiorobotics Requires One Incision At The Bottom Of The

Ribs Whereas The Da Vinci Endoscopic Surgical System

Could Require Up To Six Incision Points  2-15

2.4.4    Cardiorobotics Positioning  2-16

2.5   Snake Robot Prices  2-19

2.5.1    Inaccessible Spaces - OC Robotics  2-19

2.5.2    Cardiac Surgery - Cardioarm   2-19

2.6   Snake Robots Regional Market Analysis  2-21

 

 Snake Robots Product Description  

 

3. Snake Robot Product Description   3-1

3.1   OC Robotics Snake-Arm for Aircraft Assembly  3-1

3.1.1    OC Robotics Extender Snake Range Of –Motion

Robots Reach The Unreachable  3-2

3.1.2    OC Robotics Snake-Arm –  3-5

3.2   University of Michigan All-Terrain Robotics: 3-8

3.2.1    University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread  3-9

3.2.2    OmniTread Robot Snakes  3-11

3.3   Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC   3-12

3.3.1    Applied Robotics Technologies Key Benefits  3-16

3.3.2    Applied Robotics Technologies Pricing  3-16

3.4   NASA Robotic Snakes  3-16

3.5   Canadian Robotics Ltd. 3-17

3.6   Japan Guru World-Class Snake Robotics  3-17

3.7   NTNU and SINTEF in Norway World-Class

Snake Robotics  3-18

3.7.1    Sintef Climbing Robot 3-20

3.7.2    Sintef Robot Learning  3-22

3.7.3    Anna Konda Firefighting Snakebot 3-23

3.7.4    SINTEF / NTNU Aiko – Snake Robot With

Electric Motors  3-26

3.7.5    Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU

Pneumosnake – Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows  3-27

3.8   Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake  3-31

3.8.1    HiBot Japanese Snake Robot 3-33

3.9   Medical Devices for Minimally Invasive Surgery  3-35

3.9.1    Cardiorobotics Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery  3-35

3.9.2    Cardiorobotics Cardiac Surgery Snake Robot 3-36

3.9.3    Minimally Invasive Surgery Positioning: Cardiorobotics

Requires One Incision At The Bottom Of The Ribs

Whereas  The Da Vinci Surgical System Could Require

Up To Six Incision Points  3-40

3.10     OC Robotics  3-41

3.10.1  OC Energy & Environment Robotics  3-42

3.11     Maintaining High Voltage Transmission Lines

Using Robotics  3-43

3.11.1  Hydro-Quebec Research Institute (IREQ)LineScout

Tele-Operated Obstacle Crossing System   3-43

3.11.2  HiBot Expliner 3-44

3.11.3  America’s Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)

Autonomous Version  3-44

 

 

 

 Snake RobotsTechnology 

 

4. Snake Robot Technology  4-1

4.1   Actuated Joints In A Tight Volume  4-1

4.2   OC Robotics  4-2

4.2.1    OC Robotics Develops Snake-Arm Robots

For Confined Spaces  4-3

4.2.2    OC Robotics Snake Arm Actuator Pack  4-5

4.2.3    OC Robotics Snake Arm   4-6

4.2.4    OC Robotics Tool 4-6

4.2.5    OC Robotics Confined Space Piece Manipulation  4-7

4.2.6    OC Robotics Confined Space Reach  4-8

4.3   OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Basics  4-10

4.3.1    OC Robotics Snake Robot Curvature –  4-15

4.3.2    OC Robotics Protective Skins  4-16

4.3.3    OC Robotics Manages Hazardous Environments –  4-17

4.3.4    OC Robotics Software - SoftSnake  4-18

4.3.5    OC Robotics PipeSnake  4-18

4.3.6    OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Aircraft Assembly  4-22

4.4   CISST ERC Snake Robot 4-27

4.5   Bio-Robotics Lab  4-28

4.6   Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute  4-31

4.7   Sintef  4-32

4.7.1    Sintef Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors  4-34

4.8   Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Land and

Amphibious Robot Snake  4-36

4.8.1    Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM-R5 Control System   4-37

4.8.2    Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot 4-38

4.8.3    Hirose Fukushima Lab Pneumatically-Driven Slime Robot 4-40

4.8.4    Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of

Technology Amphibious Snake Robot - ACM-R5  4-49

4.9   DrGavin S7 Snake Robot Rectilinear Locomotion  4-50

4.9.1    Nottingham Trent University  4-54

4.10     Israeli Army Deploys Robot Snakes  4-55

4.10.1  Israeli Military Develops Robot Snake Bomb

 Hirose Fukushima Lab  4-57

4.11     Merlin Robotics, Nottingham Trent University

Robot Snake Dance  4-60

4.12     Snake Bot at Carnegie Mellon  4-61

4.12.1  Carnegie Mellon Conforming Loop  4-64

4.13     CardioArm Biomedicine Snakelike Robots for

Heart Surgery  4-68

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4.13.1  Snake Robot Helps Wounded Soldiers  4-70

4.14     Hughes Aircraft R7 Early Robotic Snake  4-72

4.15     British 'Serpentine Spy' 4-73

4.16     IDF Spy Robot Snake  4-74

4.17     SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes  4-75

4.17.1  SINTEF Anna Konda  4-76

4.18     Climbing Snakes Biorobotics Lab,

Carnegie Mellon University  4-79

4.19     NASA Snake-bot  VS InnoSTAR   4-81

4.20     Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC   4-82

 

 

 

 

 

 Snake RobotsCompany Profiles 

 

5. Snake Robots Company Profiles  5-1

5.1   Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC   5-1

5.2   Cardiorobotics  5-1

5.2.1    Cardiorobotics Several Generations Of

Snake Robot Platforms  5-2

5.2.2    Cardiorobotics Advances Clinical Development of

 Snake Robot for Surgery  5-3

5.2.3    Cardiorobotics Positioning  5-3

5.2.4    Cardiac Surgery Gold Standard  5-4

5.2.5    Cardiorobotics Snake Robot Technologies For Use In A

Wide Range Of Surgical And Interventional Applications  5-5

5.2.6    Cardiorobotics Technology & Research Center 5-6

5.3   OC Robotics  5-7

5.3.1    OC Roboics Robots Extend The Reach Of Manual Process  5-7

5.3.2    OC Robotics A CANDU Snake-Arm Robot 5-9

5.3.3    OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots  5-10

5.4   University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread  5-13

5.5   Tokyo Institute of Technology Research Laboratories  5-16

5.5.1    Tokyo Institute of Technology /

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM    5-18

5.5.2    Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Hibot 5-18

5.6   Sintef  5-19

5.7   Selected List of University and Research Snake Robots  5-20

 

List of Tables and Figures

 

 Snake Robots Executive Summary 

 

Table ES-1  ES-1

Snake Robot Market Driving Forces 

Table ES-2  ES-2

Confined Spaces 

Figure ES-3  ES-4

Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2010 

Figure ES-4  ES-5

Snake Robot Market Forecasts 

 

 Snake Robots Market Description and Market Dynamics 

 

Figure 1-1  1-2

Mod Snake Robots Snake Robots Are Different.

Table 1-2  1-6

Serpentine Robot Applications 

 

 

 

 Snake Robots Market Shares and Market Forecasts 

 

Table 2-1  2-1

Snake Robot Market Driving Forces 

Table 2-2  2-2

Confined Spaces 

Figure 2-3  2-4

Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2010 

Figure 2-4  2-5

Snake Robots Market Shares, Dollars, Worldwide, 2010 

Figure 2-5  2-8

Robotic Snake Permits Surgeon to Enter Heart Via Mouth 

Figure 2-6  2-11

Snake Robot Market Forecasts 

Table 2-7  2-12

Snake Robots Market Industry Segments, Dollars,

Worldwide, 2011-2017 

Figure 2-8  2-13

Snake Robot Market Industry Segments, Units, Worldwide,

2011-2017 

Figure 2-9  2-17

Cardiac Surgery Snake Robots Market Forecasts,

Dollars, Worldwide, 2011-2017 

Figure 2-10  2-18

Reaching The Un Reachable Snake Robot Market

Forecasts Dollars, Worldwide, 2011-2017 

Figure 2-11  2-21

Snake Robots Regional Market Segments, Dollars,  2010 

Table 2-12  2-22

Snake Robots Regional Market Segments, 2010 

 

 Snake Robots Product Description  

 

Figure 3-1  3-3

OC Robotics Extender Snake Range Of –Motion 

Figure 3-2  3-4

OC Robotics Extender Models and Payloads 

Figure 3-2  (Continued) 3-5

OC Robotics Extender Models and Payloads 

Figure 3-3  3-6

OC Robotics Arms in Confined Spaces 

Table 3-4  3-10

University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Omnitread

Robotic Motion Capabilities 

Figure 3-5  3-11

Omnitread robot snakes 

Figure 3-6  3-13

FLEXnav Proprioceptive Position Estimation (PPE) System  

Figure 3-7  3-15

Applied Robotics Technologies Typical Experimental

Results: Position Errors After 120-160 M Travel On

Moderately Rugged Terrain 

Figure 3-8  3-18

Sintef’s Anna Konda Snake Robot

Figure 3-9  3-21

Sintef PiKo Robot For Vertical Movement

Table 3-10  3-23

Sintef’s Anna Konda Firefighting Snakebot

Table 3-11  3-24

SINTEF Firefighting Snakebot Components 

Figure 3-12  3-25

Norwegian Company Sintef Anna Konda 

Table 3-13  3-26

SINTEF Firefighting Snakebot Target  Markets 

Table 3-14  3-26

SINTEF / NTNU Aiko 

Table 3-15  3-27

SINTEF / NTNU Aiko Technical data 

Figure 3-16  3-28

Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU

Pneumosnake – Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows 

Table 3-17  3-29

Department of Engineering Cybernetics at NTNU

Technical Data 

Table 3-18  3-30

NTNU / SINTEF Next Generation Robotics for

Norwegian Industry 

Figure 3-19  3-31

Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake 

Figure 3-20  3-32

Hibot ACM-R5 Amphibious Robosnake 

Table 3-21  3-38

Cardiorobotics Medical Field Target Markets 

Figure 3-22  3-39

Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke Looking At

 Snaking Robot Camera Made by Cardiorobotics 

 

 Snake RobotsTechnology 

 

Figure 4-1  4-2

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Remote Car Inspection  2

Figure 4-2  4-4

Robotics Develops Snake-Arm Robots For Confined Spaces  4

Figure 4-3  4-5

OC Robotics Actuator Pack  5

Figure 4-4  4-6

OC Robotics Snake Arm   6

Figure 4-5  4-7

OC Robotics Snake Robot Tool 7

Table 4-6  4-8

OC Robotics Able To Snake Into Cluttered Environments  8

Figure 4-7  4-9

OC Robotics Extend Robot Arms With Elbows  9

Figure 4-8  4-10

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Basics 

Figure 4-9  4-15

OC Robotics Snake Curvatures 

Figure 4-10  4-16

OC Robotics Protective Skins 

Figure 4-11  4-17

OC Robotics Arm Materials Allow For Radiation,

Heat, Vacuum, Magnetic Fields, And Operations In

Explosive Atmospheres 

Figure 4-12  4-19

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Extend Reach Of The Human 

Figure 4-13  4-20

OC Robotics PipeSnake 

Figure 4-14  4-21

OC Robotics Snake Robot Angle of Curvature 

Figure 4-15  4-24

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robots Aircraft

Figure 4-16  4-25

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Extender 

Figure 4-17  4-26

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Made Up Of A Large

 Number Of Segments 

Figure 4-18  4-27

CISST ERC Snake Robot

Figure 4-19  4-28

Bio-Robotics Lab Snake Robots that Climb 

Figure 4-20  4-29

Bio-Robotics Lab Snake Robot Climbing 

Figure 4-21  4-31

Carnegie Mellon Robotics Institute Door Opening Robot

Figure 4-22  4-32

Sintef Snake Robot Designed To Be Used To Put Out Fires 

Figure 4-23  4-33

Sintef Anna Konda Robot Equipped With Nozzles 

Figure 4-24  4-34

Sintef Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors 

Figure 2-25  4-35

Sintef’s Snake Robot

Figure 4-26  4-36

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM-R5 - Amphibious Robot Snake 

Figure 4-27  4-38

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot

Table 4-28  4-39

Slim Slime ACM Robot Features 

Table 4-29  4-39

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot Applications 

Figure 4-30  4-41

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Serpentine Propulsion 

Figure 4-31  4-42

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM xSlim Slime Robot With a Child 

Figure 4-32  4-43

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Slim Slime Robot

Module Construction 

Figure 4-33  4-44

Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM

Snake Like Trackers 

Figure 4-34  4-45

Tokyo Institute of Technology / Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM

Snake Like Creep Motion Of Snake, Pedal Waves Of Snail And

Limpet, Lateral Rolling, And Pivot Turn 

Figure 4-35  4-46

Hirose Fukushima Lab ACM Robot Snake Modular Construction 

Figure 4-36  4-47

Snake Robot Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of

Technology 

Figure 4-37  4-48

Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of Technology

ACM-R5 

Figure 4-38  4-49

Robot Hirose-Fukushima Lab at Tokyo Institute of

Technology Amphibious Snake Robot - ACM-R5 

Table 4-39  4-50

DrGavin S7 Rectilinear Locomotion Snake Robot

Figure 4-40  4-51

DrGavin S7 Sensor Suite That Includes Detectors 

Figure 4-41  4-52

DrGavin S5 Robot Snake Control System Electronics

Functional Diagram  

Figure 4-42  4-53

DrGavin Robot Snake 

Figure 4-43  4-54

Merlin Robotics / Nottingham Trent University Air Robot Snake 

Figure 4-44  4-55

Israeli Army Deploys Robot Snakes 

Figure 4-45  4-57

Israeli Army Bomb Hirose Fukushima Lab Robot Snakes 

Figure 4-46  4-58

Israeli Snake Robot

Figure 4-47  4-60

Merlin Robotics, Nottingham Trent University Robot Snake Dance 

Figure 4-48  4-61

Snake Bot at the Carnegie Mellon 

Figure 4-49  4-63

Carnegie Mellon Modular Bot

Figure 4-50  4-64

Carnegie Mellon Modular Bot Tricycle Riding 

Figure 4-51  4-65

Carnegie Mellon Obstacle Climbing 

Figure 4-52  4-66

Carnegie Mellon Fence Climbing 

Figure 4-53  4-67

Carnegie Mellon Stair Climbing 

Figure 4-54  4-68

CardioArm Biomedicine Snakelike Robots for Heart Surgery 

Figure 4-55  4-70

Snake Robot Helps Wounded Soldiers 

Figure 4-56  4-72

Hughes Aircraft R7 Early Robotic Snake 

Figure 4-57  4-73

British Military Reconnaissance Robot Can Be

Dropped From A Helicopter 

Figure 4-58  4-74

University of Southampton Anaconda Rubber Snake

Generates Power From Waves 

Figure 4-59  4-75

SINTEF Robot Snakes Climb Pipes 

Figure 4-60  4-76

SINTEF Anna Konda The Fire Fighting Snake Robot

Figure 4-61  4-77

SINTEF Aiko Snake Robot With Electric Motors 

Figure 4-62  4-78

Sintef Pneumosnake Snake Robot With Pneumatic Bellows 

Figure 4-63  4-79

Climbing Snakes Biorobotics Lab, Carnegie Mellon University 

Figure 4-64  4-81

InnoSTAR™ Robotic Kit

Figure 4-65  4-83

Applied Robotics Technologies, LLC Fiber Optic Gyros

Function Of Rate Of Rotation And Temperature  4-83

 

 

 

 

 

 Snake RobotsCompany Profiles 

 

Table 5-1  5-4

Cardiac Surgery Improvements 

Table 5-2  5-5

Cardiorobotics Snake Robot Technologies For Use In A Wide Range Of Surgical And Interventional Applications 

Table 5-3  5-6

Cardiorobotics Snake Robot Technologies Specialist Areas Served 

Figure 5-4  5-9

OC Robotics Conducts Inspections Within CANDU Reactors 

Figure 5-5  5-11

OC Robotics Snake-Arm Robot Technology 

Table 5-6  5-14

University of Michigan Mobile Robotics Lab Areas Of Interest

Figure 5-7  5-17

Tokyo Institute of Technology Electrochemistry

Spextroscopic Techniques