Scaling hard vertical surfaces with compliant microspine arrays

Robotics: Science and Systems

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-200

  Asbeck, Alan T ^a   Kim, Sangbae ^a   Cutkosky, M R ^a   Provancher, William R ^b   Lanzetta, Michele ^c  

^a Stanford University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

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EID: 33748557846     PISSN: 23307668     EISSN: 2330765X     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
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