Waalbot: Agile climbing with synthetic fibrillar dry adhesives

Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1599-1600

  Murphy, Michael P ^a   Sitti, Metin ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ROBOTS;

CLIMBING ROBOTS; DRY ADHESIVE; MICRON SCALE; SMOOTH SURFACE;

ADHESIVES;

EID: 85113869887     PISSN: 10504729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROBOT.2009.5152597     Document Type: Conference Paper

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