Wall Climbing Robots Choose from the following wall climbing robot designs: Waalbot Tankbot Geckobot Wormbot Members: Casey Kute, TaeWon Seo, Yigit Menguc, Metin Sitti Former Members: Ozgur Unver, Mike Murphy, In the News: 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) 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