Handbot Climbs Shelf, Steals Book, Gets Away

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Thursday, 20 of August , 2009 at 2:23 am

This is Handbot, a robot designed by EPFL to climb vertical surfaces and manipulate objects. It’s not quite strong enough to climb using just its grippers and arm, so it’s got a magnetic rope launcher that it fires up to the ceiling to carry most of its weight. Handbot is designed to work as a part of a distributed robotic system called Swarmanoid (the successor to the swarm-bots project), which aims to emulate the functionality of a single humanoid robot with a swarm of more specialized robots that work together. That’s way too cool to include as an afterthought on this post, so we’ll have more on Swarmanoid tomorrow.

[ Handbot ]

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