Synthetic gecko foot-hair micro/nano-structures for future wall-climbing robots

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn 1, Issue , 2003, Pages 1164-1170

  Sitti, Metin ^a   Fearing, Ronald S ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; HYDROPHOBICITY; NANOTECHNOLOGY; POLYIMIDES; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYSTYRENES; RUBBER; TENSILE STRENGTH;

NANOPORE MEMBRANE; NANOPROBE INDENTED FLAT WAX; SYNTHETIC GECKO FOOT HAIR; SYNTHETIC HAIR DESIGN; WALL CLIMBING ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 0345307637     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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