Wall-climbing robots that scale the sides of high-rise buildings and clean the glass aren't new. Neither are the Spider-Man-like robots that drive around industrial environments and inspect boiler ...

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 ...

Snails are great at climbing vertical surfaces, even though they have just a single wet suction-cup foot. A new robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although thankfully ...