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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. From the makers of BigDog by Gedalia · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is another robot built by the guys at Boston Dynamics http://www.bostondynamics.com/. The robotic pack mule that they built ( BigDog ) was linked to last Friday. http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/03/ 04/0240246

    There's also Rhex a six legged waterproof go anywhere robot.
    more info at http://www.bostondynamics.com/content/sec.php?sect ion=robotics

  2. Re:Tree climbing robot for space exploration! by XenoRyet · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Climbing a vertical surface shares similarities with clinging to an astroid with very little gravity, both can be bad when you let go.

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