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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. What's next? by MetaPhyzx · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Battlefield robot mules? :)

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  2. Hmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I, for one, welcome our new tree-climbing robot overlords...