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Wall-climbling robot scales nearly any building material

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Wall-climbling robot scales nearly any building material

Engadget (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

Filed under: Robots Most of the bots we've seen recently have either been targeted at performing human-like tasks or simply too adorable to actually fear, but SRI International's wall-climbing robot is doing its best to put some terror back in the bot game, using something called "electro-adhesion" to cling to nearly any building material and climb with surprising alacrity. Electro-adhesion is apparently...

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Wall-climbing attack droids on their way

CrunchGear (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

The non-profit group SRI International is designing a wall-climbing robot to be unveil it at the International Conference of Robotics and Automation. Popular Mechanics has a video of it climbing on a lot of common building materials. The robot uses electro-adhesion to stick to the wall — is the same technology robots are already using [...]

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Wall-Climbing Robot Scales Nearly Any Wall

Switched (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008

Filed under: Computers Most of the bots we've seen recently have either been targeted at performing human-like tasks or simply too adorable to actually fear, but SRI International's wall-climbing robot is doing its best to put some terror back in the bot game, using something called "electro-adhesion" to cling to nearly any building material and climb with surprising alacrity. Electro-adhesion is...