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- From: mds@iastate.edu (Mark D. Smucker)
- Newsgroups: comp.robotics
- Subject: Re: Climbing robots
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.235549.5811@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 23:55:49 GMT
- References: <1992Jul20.145557.26830@cs.hw.ac.uk>
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- In article <1992Jul20.145557.26830@cs.hw.ac.uk> guanghua@cs.hw.ac.uk (Guanghua Zhang) writes:
- >Does anybody know if there are any robots that can
- >walk/climb on walls, i.e. something like the spiderman ?
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- In an article the Smithsonian did on Dr. Rodney Brooks and others at
- the MIT mobot lab, there was a picture of an undergraduate that had a
- climbing robot.
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- It looked like it was designed to climb smooth surfaces like glass
- only.
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- If you would like, I'll find the article ( it's at home ) and send you
- his name ( it was in the caption ).
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- Mark D. Smucker --- mds@iastate.edu
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