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Wall Climbing Robots


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#1 Slightly Wonky Robob

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 09:47

http://news.bbc.co.u...ogy/7493460.stm

These things are pretty damn cool, and from the vid, can move pretty damn fast too :P
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#2 Mbob61

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 11:17

They are awesome :P
How do they get up the wall? some kind of sticky thing? rubber to create immense friction?

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#3 Slightly Wonky Robob

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Posted 09 July 2008 - 12:37

It uses the electorstatic charges, similar to when balloons stick to walls.
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#4 Shirou

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Posted 12 July 2008 - 11:17

If it ceased the screeching it would be a nice spy tool ^^
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