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Tree Climbing Robot

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bugbot-crawling-its-way-to-the-top dept.

galactic grub writes "New Scientist's new Tech Blog has an article about a remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities. The article comes complete with a video clip of it going up several different surfaces."

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  1. Alternate Video Link by scdeimos · · Score: 3, Informative

    Courtesy of Boston Dynamics who co-developed the robot with CMU: 6.4MB WMV

  2. Re:how? by Vapon · · Score: 4, Informative

    if you push in each direction into a small grove, such as the space between bricks, or the ridges in bark, you are able to have enough friction to keep you up, I rock climb quite often and simply by pushing with both hand and feet against rocks, you can even climb the roof of a cave.

  3. Re:humans have created a tree climbing robot... by theparag0n · · Score: 1, Informative

    Yes they can, they have built in jetpacks now!