Imagine you are at the movies and you see a Roomba-like robot climbing a wall or clinging to a ceiling. How would that work? If you are like us, you might think of suction cups or something ...

Traditional robots use human-like hands or claw-like grippers to mimic how humans handle material. But Grabit has multiple patents on electroadhesion. The original focus was wall-climbing robots ...

The paper, by G. Gu at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, China, and colleagues was titled, "Soft wall-climbing robots." ...

The video also shows the robot climbing down off a wall, suggesting the robot could bypass obstacles to reach a certain destination. It’s not clear what the purpose of this particular robot is.

This robot is designed in the style of a tank with 2 parts, connected by a central joint. When climbing, the rear segment of the tank is responsible for preloading the front against the wall to ensure ...

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Disney Research and ETH Zurich teamed up to build the VertiGo — a robot that uses two tiltable propellers to help it climb up walls. Written and produced by Chelsea Pineda More from Tech ...

But it wasn’t just geological formations that excited researchers as the underwater robot ... climbing” up the slope, the ...