June 9, 2004

Autonomous Rock-Climbing Robots

This is spooky looking... Timothy Wolfe Bretl builds robots that are able to climb rock walls. The movie clips are worth checking out... From his website: bq. The goal of this project is to enable a multi-limbed robot to climb vertical rock, using skills and techniques similar to those developed by human climbers. In particular, I want the robot to free-climb (i.e., use only natural features and friction of the terrain for upward progress) rather than aid-climb (i.e., rely on on additional gear for progress). Posted by DaveH at June 9, 2004 2:02 PM