This paper presents a new four-limbed robot, LEMUR IIb (Legged Excursion Mechanical Utility Rover), that can free-climb vertical rock surfaces. This robot was designed to have a nu...
Timothy Bretl, Stephen M. Rock, Jean-Claude Latomb...
— We describe the design and control of a new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale smooth vertical surfaces using directional adhesive materials. The robot, called Stick...
Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Bar...
— A hexapod designed for wall climbing with a body joint and 3-DOF legs can perform complex maneuvers such as sharp turns, making both interior and exterior transitions between v...
Abstract— This paper proposes a small-scale agile wall climbing robot able to navigate on smooth surfaces of any orientation, including vertical and inverted surfaces, which uses...
Michael P. Murphy, William Tso, Michael Tanzini, M...
A simple mechanical design for quadrupedal locomotion, termed SCOUT, is proposed, featuring only one degree of freedom per leg. This paper demonstrates experimentally that our rst...
Martin Buehler, R. Battaglia, A. Cocosco, Geoff Ha...