This paper provides an overview of all current issues that are connected to the presence of
nitrosamines in water technology. N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA) is the most frequently …

The remarkable ability of geckos to climb and run rapidly on walls and ceilings has recently
received considerable interest from many researchers. Significant progress has been made …

This paper presents a wheeled wall-climbing robot with the ability to climb concrete, brick
walls using circular arrays of miniature spines located around the wheel. The robot consists …

Geckos possess a superlative climbing adaptation in the form of hierarchical arrays of
adhesive nanostructures on the underside of their toes. These structures permit rapid …

Many animals exhibit strong mechanical interlocking in order to achieve efficient climbing
against rough surfaces by using their claws in the pads. To maximally use the mechanical …

This paper presents a novel robotic platform, Abigaille II, designed to climb vertical surfaces
using dry adhesion. Abigaille II is a lightweight hexapod prototype actuated by 18 …

In many instances, a climbing robot that utilizes dry adhesives as an attachment method may
be found to be very useful due to the inherent nature of biomimetic fibrillar dry adhesives in …

Climbing robots that use bionic claws can climb vertical or even inverted rough surfaces.
However, wall-climbing robots with unidirectional spiny feet cannot crawl horizontally or …

In many cases, such as in the instance of climbing robots or temporary adhesives, there is
the need to be able to dynamically control the level of adhesion a biomimetic dry adhesive …

B29C33/3857—Manufacturing moulds, eg sha** the mould surface by machining by
making impressions of one or more parts of models, eg shaped articles and including …