Discover robotics and biomimicry by building your own slithering snake ‘bot. Wire up the electronics, link up the joints, and select your snakeskin. Then put your RC-driving skills to the test and try to guide your robo-snake through a maze. Ready to discover some <i>sssensational</i> snake-inspired engineering?

KiwiCo

Remote-Controlled Snake Robot

My grandson was anxious to get started on the Snake Robot. He loves working on projects like this!

This was one of the best kits we got so far, the others seem to break easily or hard to build, this was amazing

It was a snake which was cool. Liked the interchangeable skins. You could give it the tires of a monster truck so it could go on rough terrain.

Like all Kiwico stuff, this is right at the sweet spot of complex enough to be challenging and engaging and intuitive enough for my daughter to build entirely on her own. I love that the assembly doesn’t need any tools or fiddly little parts.

The completed snake is adorable, it moves in a really zippy way, and my daughter loves that you can change the “skin” to give it three different looks.

It’s really well designed and fun, a perfect rainy day/vacation activity.

My grand son loved it. Opened it and worked on it non stop until finished

My daughter had to put it away and hide it from my grandson, because he was so curious about it. They have to set aside time to assist him with it. He's only 6 but he's very academically advanced for his age. It was very hard ti decide what to choose. I'm on a budget but if I wasn't, I would have chosen at least four.

Great project. My kids loved building it and playing with it afterward.

Fairly easy assemly. 

Instructions could provide a little more detail. (Instructions do not show metal disc on head, so we do not know whether the disc should be on the top or the bottom.) 

 One body piece was not cut correctly. We plan to build our snake without this body section. Should be fine. 

  Still building. Not yet tested. 

My 9-year-old loved putting together this snake robot. She was able to successfully accomplish the entire project by herself. Because we have only carpeted floors, the snake wasn't able to get enough traction to move more than a few inches forward. I helped prompt her toward finding another solution and she suggested using some of her lego tires. She searched through a few different sizes she had available and we were able to squeeze on a pair. The snake now has enough traction to maneuver across multiple styles of carpeting in our house. I would suggest KiwiCo add tires that give better traction to future boxes.

Slither into the world of robotics by building a remote-controlled snake robot! Assemble and wire the electronics that drive the robot, and customize it by adding a decorative skin.

Remote-Controlled Snake Robot

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