Wall Climbing Robots
Choose from the following current wall climbing robot designs:
Choose from the following previous wall climbing robot designs: Media Appearances:

• NECN Boston Interview (December 2009)
• Engineering TV episode (June 2008)
• IEEE Spectrum Article May 2008
• New Scientist blog on animal inspired robots with YouTube video
• Daily Planet, Discovery Channel Canada, 5 minute segment on Waalbot. (Mar. 27, 2008)
• Bio-Inspired Robotics review article in Science (Nov. 2007)
• Technology Review Article (May 2007)

Members: Metin Sitti

Past Members: Casey Kute, TaeWon Seo, Kamol Chuengsatiansup, Manuel Schlegel, Ozgur Unver, Yigit Menguc, Mike Murphy


Papers:

• B. Aksak, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Gecko Inspired Micro-Fibrillar Adhesives for Wall Climbing Robots on Micro/Nanoscale Rough Surfaces," ICRA, Pasadena, CA, May 2008. [pdf]
• M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Waalbot: An Agile Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robot Utilizing Dry Elastomer Adhesives", IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, vol.12, no. 3, June 2007 [available online]
• O. Unver, A. Uneri, A. Aydemir, M. Sitti, "Geckobot: A Gecko Inspired Climbing Robot Using Elastomer Adhesives" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Orlando, Florida May 2006. pdf
• O. Unver, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Geckobot and Waalbot: Small-Scale Wall Climbing Robots" AIAA 5th Aviation, Technology, Integration, and Operations Conference (ATIO) , Arlington, Virginia Sept. 2005. pdf
• C. Menon, M. Murphy, M. Sitti, "Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots" IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO), Shenyang, China, Aug 2004. pdf
• C.Menon, M.Murphy , G.Shah , M. Sitti, F.Angrilli,"WaalBots for Space Applications" 55th IAC Conference , Vancouver, 2004 pdf