Have you ever thought that snakes should have legs? No? Well, someone has! American YouTuber and engineer, Allen Pan, proclaims to be a snake lover and finds it unfair that snakes don’t have legs. He took it upon himself to put his innovative skills and engineering prowess to the test by building cyborg legs specially designed for snakes.
Allen Pan’s Motivation
Pan proclaims himself to be a snake lover and finds it unfair that snakes don’t have legs. Of course, as evolution ran its course, any legs that snake predecessors might have had become vestigial and no longer needed. Snakes seem to get around just fine without the need for legs, but Pan was curious to see how a snake would react to using a cyborg machine that essentially reunites them with their long-lost appendages. His video on YouTube shows the process and he insists that no snakes were harmed in the process.
The Mission Was Underway
Allen Pan found a pet store that offered reptile birthday parties for 200 dollars. Even though it wasn’t his birthday, he told the pet store that it was and set up a meeting with the reptiles. While talking to the man handling the snakes, he asked where their legs went. The man pointed out small nubs on the snake’s underbelly where their vestigial legs were. Pan explains in the video that humanity goes out of its way to help any other animal with leg deformities, but that nobody appears to love snakes enough to do the same for them. That’s what motivated him to build snake cyborg legs.
The Snake-Leg Cyborg Machine
The self-proclaimed “failed Mythbuster” used a clear tube and attached to it custom-made robotic legs of his own design. It’s a prosthetic that snakes can choose to slither into or out of at their convenience. A snake owner let his pet test the cyborg’s legs and they worked like a charm. The experience reinforced Pan’s love for snakes.