A Technology
Review article has an interesting description of the latest
improvements to wall climbing robots developed by researchers at CMU.
The new robots can traverse smooth walls and ceilings at rates up to six
centimeters per second using wheel like-legs. Each leg is tipped with a
foot pad covered in a microfabricated fiber material that emulates the
atomic van der Waals bonding forces used by geckos. Likely applications
include robots that could walk around on the hulls of spacecraft for
repair operations.
Source: http://www.netchain.com
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