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Thu, 03/09/2006 - 13:51 — kebernet

A remarkable, if slightly creepy, tree-climbing robot is being developed by robotics experts from Carnegie Mellon and several other US Universities. And here's a video of it scrabbling up several different surfaces.

The aim of RiSE (Robots in Scansorial Environments) is to develop a robot capable of walking on land and also crawling up vertical surfaces. And it is funded by DARPA's Biodynotics Biologically Inspired Multifunctional Dynamic Robotics (BIODYNOTICS) Program.

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Thu, 03/09/2006 - 15:29 — jason (not verified)

RE: RoboSquirrel

Am I the only one who immediately thought of 1984\'s \"Runaway\" with Tom Selleck?

That thing looks just like one of Luther\'s (played by Gene Simmons) spider robots....the six legged \"spider\" one\'s wielding acid packed hypodermic needles!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runaway_(1984_film)

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