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Stickybot III Still Climbing Glass
September 2, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
You probably remember Stickybot III either from reading about it here or from being startled to see it crawling up your window somewhere. Either way, you were right to shriek. One day this glass climbing bot will scale office buildings, making sure that you drones are working. By then, it will also be able to enter the building via special ducts if it spots a human office slacker, shooting you dead with a laser and alerting another bot to clean up the body as a replacement worker is ushered in. But I digress.
The latest version of bot has a two-layered structure to the foot, one that’s similar to the gecko’s lamellae and setae. It’s made from an adhesive rubber-type material that contains tiny polymer hairs that allow the robot to climb wood paneling, painted metal and glass. So what next?
Rotating ankles. The researchers want to scale up the technology at some point to human-sized pads that would allow a person to literally climb the walls.
Discovery
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Stickybot III Still Climbing Glass
All Gadgets
Stickybot III Still Climbing Glass
September 2, 2010 by Syndicated · Leave a Comment
You probably remember Stickybot III either from reading about it here or from being startled to see it crawling up your window somewhere. Either way, you were right to shriek. One day this glass climbing bot will scale office buildings, making sure that you drones are working. By then, it will also be able to enter the building via special ducts if it spots a human office slacker, shooting you dead with a laser and alerting another bot to clean up the body as a replacement worker is ushered in. But I digress.
The latest version of bot has a two-layered structure to the foot, one that’s similar to the gecko’s lamellae and setae. It’s made from an adhesive rubber-type material that contains tiny polymer hairs that allow the robot to climb wood paneling, painted metal and glass. So what next?
Rotating ankles. The researchers want to scale up the technology at some point to human-sized pads that would allow a person to literally climb the walls.
Discovery
Read more here:
Stickybot III Still Climbing Glass
