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Wall-Climbing Robot

May 20, 2008 Gadgets, Wacky

Check this out: Researchers at SRI International have come up with a wall-climbing robot - one that uses electro-adhesion to attach to the wall. There is a video at the Popular Mechanics link, which shows a tracked ‘vehicle’ climbing up a normal household wall. Pretty neat technology. Spotted at Gizmodo.

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One Response to “Wall-Climbing Robot”

  1. El Seed Says:

    May 21st, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Wow! I think this could have great applications on the nano-scale. The principle could be even more effective there.


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