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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. Is your time worth $2700 a minute? Bill Gates' is by digitaldc · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    That's nothing, it has been calculated that Bill Gates makes $2500.00 a SECOND!
    By this reasoning, he would never even click on this link, in fact, it would not even be worth his time to pick up a $100.00 bill if someone dropped it in front of him.

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    He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson