RISE, the wall-climbing robot (video)

February 18th, 2008

Pushing us forward into the awesome robotic future that Hollywood has been promising us, RISE is a small six-legged robot that can climb a variety of surfaces using sticky pads, claws, or “micro-claws”. It’s not slow either - the little guy can shift its 2kg body upwards at 0.3m/s. The question is - what’s it trying to get to?

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