Swinging Robot Excels At Wall-Climbing

Zothecula writes "Engineers have used a variety of techniques to create robots that can scale walls — the Climber uses a rolling seal, while the insect-like robots from SRI have caterpillar tracks with electro-adhesive properties. While such robots generally focus on speed, adhering to the wall and deciding how and when to move, the creators of a small robot named ROCR say it is the first wall-climbing robot to focus on climbing efficiently. And it does so by using the momentum of a tail that swings like a grandfather clock's pendulum."

Re:Roboticus Superioritis

[Farmer Tim]

And then of course there is "Big Dog" which can take a flying kick and keep walking.

But not from Chuck Norris, and that's humanity's trump card.

Swinger

[Anonymous Coward]

Swinging Robot

Does it try to sleep with my wife?

Re:Swinger

[ikkonoishi]

Your wife? Of course not. You might want to hide your smoke detectors though.

Re:Roboticus Superioritis

[MRe_nl]

Maybe we should build an army of Chuck Norris clones off-planet just in case of Big Dog becoming self-aware, Chancellor?