Paraswift is a robot that can climb vertical surfaces with ease. Here you can see the robot motoring up the side of a building with a parachute packed on it’s back for use on the way down. The team ...
ReconScout already has a line of “throwable” small-scale spy bots, but their latest one has a very specific target: ships. In an age where pirates seem to be capturing cargo vessels left, right and ...
The delivery giant is getting in on the robot delivery wars, debuting a robot called SameDay that can climb stairs and navigate sidewalks. FedEx’s new “SameDay” bot is just the latest of a long line ...
Walls can’t hold [Elijah Cirioli]. The would-be superhero has been busy scaling the sides of buildings using his self-contained vacuum climbers. (Video embedded after the break.) After being inspired ...
AN OPEN window hundreds of metres up in a sheer glass tower block. No machine could reach it, surely? Step forward an insect-bot, with sticky feet that help it climb. All insects squirt a sticky fluid ...
PHOENIX — Soft robots really get around. Some jump, others swim or crawl on the ground (SN Online: 12/13/16). Now, one can even scale walls. Inspired by an octopus’s suckers, researchers have ...
Mighty things come in small packages. The little robots in this video can haul things that weigh over 100 times more than themselves. The super-strong bots – built by mechanical engineers at Stanford ...
High-quality vacuum and mopping robots already clean flat surfaces very well. However, they have yet to be able to cope with anything a little higher. This includes areas that are separated by a ...
There are some places on earth that humans simply can't go. Mount Erebus in Antarctica is a good example. The second-tallest volcano in the continent offers a potential treasure trove of ancient DNA ...
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