In the past few years, we have covered plenty of nature inspired climbing robots here. University of Waterloo researchers have come up with a climbing robot inspired by geckos and inchworms. It is made with a liquid crystal elastomers and synthetic adhesive pads that can altered at the molecular level to mimic how geckos move.
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This 4cm long, 3mm wide, one mm thick robot can climb on a vertical wall. Its light-responsive polymer strip simulates the motion of an inchworm while gecko-inspired magnet pads are for gripping.
[HT] [credit: Jian Sun, Lukas Bauman, Li Yu, Boxin Zhao]
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