Wall Climbing Robots Try Out New Techniques
Writing by Evan Ackerman on Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 12:47 am
These four climbing robots are from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Beersheba, Israel, from the same people who came up with that web slinging spider robot. There’s a couple new techniques here which are pretty cool… We’ve seen clawed climbers before, and the little magnet guy is pretty cool (albeit of limited usefulness). There’s also a bot that uses regular 3M sticky tape on its wheels to climb smooth surfaces. The really neat one, though, is the treaded robot that you can see at about 40 seconds into the video. If you can’t tell from the vid, there is a dispenser above each tread which squirts hot glue onto the top of the track, and it travels up and around to stick the robot to the surface. It’s got limited ammo, and it leaves a bit of a mess behind, but if you need a robot that’s capable of climbing just about any type of surface (and you don’t have a geckobot), gluetank here (I made that up) could be for you.
[ BGU Robots ] VIA [ IEEE ]
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Comment by Travis
Made Tuesday, 19 of January , 2010 at 8:18 am
Cool ideas, but I’m still partial to the more versatile electroadhesive climbers.