Snails are great at climbing vertical surfaces, even though they have just a single wet suction-cup foot. A new robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although thankfully ...

Vertical farms are all the rage, yet these systems are often expensive, messy, and utterly impractical for most urban dwellers. The Robotic Urban Farm System (RUFS) by Better Living Through Robotics ...

A research team at Carnegie Mellon University has developed a type of robotic lizard that can climb vertical rough surfaces. In contrast to similar robots, which often rely on suction systems for a ...

Using "chimney climbing," the robot dog Kleiyn moves upward between two walls. It does this 50 times faster than the previous record holder. A team of scientists at the Jouhou System Kougaka ...