Gecko inspired micro-fibrillar adhesives for wall climbing robots on micro/nanoscale rough surfaces

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 3058-3063

  Aksak, Burak ^a   Murphy, Michael P ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ROBOT APPLICATIONS;

CHARACTERIZATION AND TESTING; DRY ADHESIVES; FIBER ARRAYS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

ROBOTICS;

EID: 51649106825     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2008.4543675     Document Type: Conference Paper

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