SpinyBot Climbs With Tiny Claws
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 8 of April , 2009 at 9:02 am
Looks like Stanford has a couple different bots in the fire when it comes to climbing with claws. There’s RiSE, and there’s also SpinyBot, who climbs with spiny legs instead of gripper claws. SpinyBot works sort of like StickyBot, except using claws that are on the micro scale instead of the nano scale. Each leg has a foot with 10 toes, and 2 spines on each toe. SpinyBot itself weighs 400 grams (including an onboard video camera), and can climb any surface with a high enough density of little porous spineholds, which includes stucco, brick, and concrete.
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Category: Biorobotics, Research
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Comment by ethan454
Made Thursday, 9 of April , 2009 at 3:58 pm
It seems like the animal/insect kingdom already has everything figured out for us. I’m (somewhat) suprised how many people don’t think of a natural counterpart for whaterer it is there making.
I bet you guys will like this. . .
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/09/flying-robot-wings-02.html