Video: Ingenious EEWOC robot uses a tape measure to climb quickly By Ben Coxworth April 23, 2024 The tape-dispensing EEWOC robot has a top climbing speed of 0.24 meters per second (0.79 ft/s), ...

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 ...

At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier. reading time 3 minutes Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a ...

Eufy and Dreame have both announced stair-climbing robot vacuums at IFA The Eufy MarsWalker and Dreame Cyber X both use independent arms and roller tracks to scale steps Eufy's will go on sale 'next ...

What’s happened? Led by robotics Ph.D. student Paul Nadan, a team at Carnegie Mellon University has been developing the extraordinary Loris robot for several years. The latest version of the robot, ...

The problem of gripping all surfaces has always plagued the field of climbing robotics. But if you don’t care about damaging the wall, why not just let the robot glue its feet to the surface. That’s ...

Climbing robots represent a rapidly evolving field in robotics, offering innovative solutions for tasks that are often hazardous, labour‐intensive or inaccessible for humans. These systems utilise ...

IFA Berlin This story is part of our coverage of IFA Berlin 2025 IFA 2025 has blessed us with a whole boat load of new products in the tech and gaming space. Smart home and AI have dominated the trade ...

Researchers have created a robot that can run up a wall as smooth as glass and onto the ceiling at a rate of six centimeters a second. The robot currently uses a dry elastomer adhesive, but the ...

Even the bravest of firefighters can't relish the prospect of walking through a burning building. Robots, though, have no qualms—and now engineers are building a new generation of "Spider-Man" robots ...