Robots Use Tricks From Nature to Climb Walls
The latest projects of Amir Shapiro, head of the robotics laboratory in the Department of Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheeba, Israel, are wall-climbers. In keeping with an on-going theme of RobotNext, this article is about the robot/nature connection. These robots are using techniques from nature to defy gravity. One robot is based…