Gecko has the ability to climb flexibly on various natural surfaces because of its fine layered
adhesion system of foot, which has motivated researchers to carry out a lot of researches on …

Cleaning dirty spaces is a very important task for human beings to maintain their quality of
life. Recently, many high-rise buildings have been constructed, and their façades are easily …

Stickybot is a bioinspired robot that climbs smooth vertical surfaces such as glass, plastic,
and ceramic tile at 4 cm/s. The robot employs several design principles adapted from the …

Climbing robots are robotic systems to move over 2D or complex 3D environments such as
walls, ceilings, roofs, and geometric structures and to conduct various tasks. They will not …

We describe the design and control of a new bio-inspired climbing robot designed to scale
smooth vertical surfaces using directional adhesive materials. The robot, called Stickybot …

This paper describes a novel, controllable adhesive that combines the benefits of
electrostatic adhesives with gecko-like directional dry adhesives. When working in …

Magnetically tunable micropillar arrays with uniform, continuous and extreme tilt angles for
real-time manipulation are reported. We experimentally show uniform tilt angles ranging …

Electrostatic adhesion technology has broad application prospects on wall climbing robots
because of its unique characteristics compared with other types of adhesion technologies. A …

Gecko-inspired microfibre arrays with 42 million polypropylene fibres cm− 2 (each fibre with
elastic modulus 1 GPa, length 20 μm and diameter 0.6 μm) were fabricated and tested under …

The adhesive and frictional properties of dry adhesive materials can be described by a three-
dimensional limit surface in the space of normal and tangential contact forces at the feet. We …