Four Wall-Climbing Robots


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We've previously posted about a ceiling-walking robot developed by the robotics lab at Ben Gurion University. Here are four more ingenious robot designs developed at that same laboratory, each of which scales walls using different mobility techniques:

First, a magnetic climber that has compliant magnetic wheels and is capable to climb on ferromagnetic surfaces. This robot can be used for inspection of ship hull or bridges. Second, is a Snail inspired wall climbing robot capable of climbing on non metallic surfaces using hot melt glue. The robot secretes the adhesive at the front and peels off the track from the wall at the bottom leaving a trail behind just like the snail does. Third, is a robot that uses sticky wheels in order to attach itself to the wall. It simply has 3Ms sticky tape on the wheels. It can climb on smooth surfaces like glass. Fourth, is a four legged wall climbing robot for climbing on rough surfaces. It has 12 claws made of fishing hooks mounted on each footpad, and it climbs like cat or other rodents.


via Gizmodo

@pignose
We're not far away.
http://robotics.eecs.berkeley.edu/~ronf/Gecko/interface08.html

http://nanolab.me.cmu.edu/publications/papers/Unver-ICRA2006.pdf
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Hehehe Loomis

Anyway, let's hope we'll never meet a cat able to climb like that. And most certainly I wouldn't like to meet a rodent that could...
Good night Christophe!
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