Engineers have used a variety of techniques to create robots that can scale walls – “the Climber” uses a rolling seal, while the insect-like robots from SRI have caterpillar tracks with ...

January 30, 2009 Wind turbines, predominantly constructed from glass fiber reinforced plastics, are vulnerable to fractures and flaws that can be impossible for the human eye to detect - and even the ...

Video: A robot called Capuchin scales vertical walls using four limbs that can shift its weight to stay balanced, it and other climbing robots could be key to uncovering the geology of Mars (Video ...