YouTuber Gives Snake Robotic Legs In Viral Video, Internet Is Stunned

Have you ever seen a snake walk? No, right? Well, believe it or not, a video is going viral showing a snake 'walking'. No, we aren't kidding! But it is not what you think.

Allen Pan, a YouTuber who specialises in making strange inventions, has developed robotic legs for a snake to help it walk. As if snakes weren't scary already, but ok.

YouTuber gives snake robotic legs

Pan said the project's purpose was to prove that he is a "snake lover" after he was called an abuser for catching and releasing a wild snake.

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¡°When any other animal has deformed legs, humanity comes together to spit in god¡¯s face and we build that animal awesome new cyborg legs,¡± Pan said in his YouTube video.

¡°But nobody loves snakes enough to build them robot legs. Nobody except for me.¡±

Pan created four artificial snake legs that can walk. In the video, he explained how he went about reversing millions of years of evolution to give snakes legs.

While creating the video, Pan found out that snakes do have legs while they are at an embryo stage only to lose them at a later stage of development.

He showed how he set out to engineer a device that snakes can use to "walk," with one condition being that the snake must be able to freely enter and exit the device on its own.

The result is a hollow tube with robotic legs attached to servos that can be controlled from a laptop.

Snake walks in a set of robotic legs

Toward the end of the video, Pan visits a snake breeder who agrees to lend a python to try out the machine. The python ends up slithering into the tube, which is then controlled by Pan. The snake itself had no control over the legs.

During the test, the snake stayed willingly inside the machine, apparently content with being transported around on the legs. ¡°And now you can walk your snake, just like god never wanted you to,¡± Pan says in the video.

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At the end of the video, Pan stops the legs from moving and the snake slithers out of one end of the tube.

"I cannot get over the image of the snake crawling into its robotic exoskeleton," Pan said. "I cannot believe that this worked!"

The video has garnered more than 2.6 millions views and tons of comments.

"This is the only kind of tech innovation that interests me," a user commented.

"Now I just want him to walk it in public and see people's reactions," another user wrote.

"Allen is defying god now. He¡¯s too powerful to be kept alive," a third user joked

"I can't wait for the eventual future episode, "Giving Komodo Dragons wings"," another said.

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