Discover the revolutionary sticky wall climbing system inspired by geckos and developed at Stanford University. Watch as Gecko Man demonstrates this innovative technology, scaling a smooth glass wall ...

The robot also has a maximum climbing speed of 0.24 meters per second (0.79 ft/s), reportedly making it one of the fastest climbing robots ever made. Future plans include equipping the bot with ...

Gecko Robotics, named to the 2024 CNBC Disruptor 50 list, is using robots and AI to help inspect and identify issues at over 500,000 key pieces of infrastructure globally. From bridges to factories, ...

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, ...

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 ...

The wall climbing robot for steel structures - developed by Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Sumitomo Heavy Industries, and MOL Ship Management to support ship inspection and maintenance - has completed a ...

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 ...

The collapse of Baltimore's Francis Scott Key Bridge earlier this year and an I-95 overpass in Philadelphia last June weren't triggered by structural flaws — a runaway, powerless ocean ship and tanker ...