Waalbot: An agile small-scale wall-climbing robot utilizing dry elastomer adhesives

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 330-338

  Murphy, Michael P ^a   Sitti, Metin ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dry adhesives; Mechatronics; Miniature robotics; Mobile robotics; Wall climbing

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE JOINTS; ELASTOMERS; MECHATRONICS; ROBOTICS;

DRY ELASTOMER ADHESIVES; MINIATURE ROBOTICS; MOBILE ROBOTICS; SMALL-SCALE AGILE WALL-CLIMBING ROBOT;

MOBILE ROBOTS;

EID: 34347374673     PISSN: 10834435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMECH.2007.897277     Document Type: Article

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