Tree Climbing Robot

galactic grub writes "New Scientist's new Tech Blog has an article about a remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities. The article comes complete with a video clip of it going up several different surfaces."

Alternate Video Link

[scdeimos]

Courtesy of Boston Dynamics who co-developed the robot with CMU: 6.4MB WMV [bostondynamics.com]

Re:how?

[Vapon]

if you push in each direction into a small grove, such as the space between bricks, or the ridges in bark, you are able to have enough friction to keep you up, I rock climb quite often and simply by pushing with both hand and feet against rocks, you can even climb the roof of a cave.

Re:humans have created a tree climbing robot...

[theparag0n]

Yes they can, they have built in jetpacks now!