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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. Flash required by smooth+wombat · · Score: -1, Troll
    The article comes complete with a video clip of it going up several different surfaces."

    It would be nice if submitters would warn people when Flash is required so those of us who don't bother with that nonsense wouldn't waste our time.

    On a more ontopic note, does this remind anyone of that scene in the movie Runaway with Tom Selleck, Cynthia Rhodes, Kirstie Alley and Gene Simmons? The elevator on the side of the building which had very similar looking robots attacking Tom (and his son) with acid?

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  2. #ir3.trolltalk.com by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    guys are usually su80r status, *BSD