Tree Climbing Robot

After the packmule robot, there is now a tree climbing robot (this links to a must-see movie clip).

The robot is being built by researchers from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities. It is part of the RiSE project, which aims to build a walking and climbing robot.

The goal of the RiSE project is to create a bioinspired climbing robot with the unique ability to walk on land and climb on vertical surfaces.

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This project is funded by the DARPA Biodynotics Program.

Robotics is moving very fast these days. It's fascinating to see all this wonderful technology materialize.