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Invasion of the wall climbing robots are here…

but the technology to make them do what we want might not be just yet. However SRI Internetional has developed a Wall Climbing Bot, which can be used in military and disaster recovery situations. Imagine these things crawling on walls spying on suspected drug-dealers, terrorists, used in surveillance this robot technology could be huge. The robots use a form of electroadhesive to stick to the walls. SRI explain some benefits:

• Wall-climbing robots for military and first responders: Real-time and/or longer-term reconnaissance of buildings

• Inspection Robots: For military or commercial applications such as inspection of bridges, containers, pipes and storage tanks, buildings, structural walls, ducts, aircraft and ship hulls and communications and transmission lines and towers

• Service Robots: For cleaning (windows, building walls etc.), painting (buildings, bridges, aircraft etc.) and other such needs

• Sensor positioning and re-positioning: For mobile sensors that can be repositioned in three dimensions (for example, in self-organizing networks)
• Toys/hobby robots

• Long-term perching of micro air vehicles (MAVs): In many cases, aerial mobility can be leveraged in conjunction with longer-term perching on a vertical wall

• In the future: human wall climbing: For uses ranging from Special Forces needs to exterior window-cleaning

• Other applications that require three-dimensional mobility

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