Innovation

This Magnetic Robot Quickly Crawls Up Walls Like a Spider

CREEPY CRAWLY

Spider-bot, spider-bot, does whatever a spider can.

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Kim, Min Su and Hong, Seungwoo and Park, Hae-Won, Mechanical Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

As if the robot uprising wasn’t inevitable enough, scientists engineered a spider-like bot that can quickly scurry up walls using magnetic feet.

In a study published Dec.

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