Cleaning dirty spaces is a very important task for human beings to maintain their quality of
life. Recently, many high-rise buildings have been constructed, and their façades are easily …

Many organisms have attachment organs with excellent functions, such as adhesion,
clinging, and grasping, as a result of biological evolution to adapt to complex living …

The maintenance and inspection of large vertical structures with autonomous systems is still
an unsolved problem. A large number of different robots exist which are able to navigate on …

This paper proposes an underactuated modular climbing robot with flat dry elastomer
adhesives. This robot is designed to achieve high speed, high payload, and dexterous …

High-rise tasks such as cleaning, painting, inspection, and maintenance on walls of large
buildings or other structures require robots with climbing and manipulating skills. Motivated …

In industrial applications, climbing robots are widely used for climbing and detection of
rough or smooth pipe surfaces. Inspired by the special claws of longicorn is that can crawl …

Wall-climbing drones have many applications, including structural health monitoring of civil
structures, such as bridges and high-rise buildings, cleaning of solar panels to improve …

This paper describes the inspiration for, design, analysis, and implementation of, and
experimentation with the first dynamical vertical climbing robot. Biologists have proposed a …

This article proposes a versatile quadruped climbing robot (QCR) based on multidegree-of-
freedom legs utilizing adhesive vacuum suckers. For the first time, the climbing robot is …

In this paper a hybrid solution to the problem of robots climbing on featureless surface is
presented. The research focus of wall climbing robot is on the adhesion and the mechanism …