New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Buildings 30ft High

Re:New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Building... by jkubicek on Friday March 30, 2012 @03:22PM (#3777636)

> If they combine it with the Van der waal's adhesion effect then you have a robot that should be a really good urban navigator.

It's funny you mention that. I went to grad school with the guy who created the jumping robot. His PhD research was in creating artificial Gecko footpads for robots.

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Re:New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Building... by jonah on Friday March 30, 2012 @09:10PM (#3778925)

Nice. My friend did his PhD on gecko adhesives too[1]. He later built[2] a "six-legged" robot like Boston Dynamics' RHex 'bot[3].

[1] http://northdesignlabs.com/?page_id=12 [2] http://northdesignlabs.com/?p=38 [3] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISznqY3kESI

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Re:New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Building... by ChuckMcM on Friday March 30, 2012 @04:37PM (#3777991)

And when that version comes out we'll have a product where someone throws a robot out the window, it jumps up on to a wall of a nearby building, and starts streaming back video of the area. Or, in the less fun case, it will jump on top of a vehicle where the armor is weakest and fire a shaped charge straight down.

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