A Biomimetic Climbing Robot Based on the Gecko

Journal of Bionic Engineering

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 115-125

  Carlo, Menon ^a   Metin, Sitti ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

biomimetics; climbing; gecko; robotics; space memory alloy

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749537240     PISSN: 16726529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-6529(06)60015-2     Document Type: Article

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