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Lizards, which move vertically on about any surface, on closer examination one can find that they possess tiny thin hair and suction cups along their limbs. It is the basic observation, which leads to think about climbing robots. The climbing robot comprises of two limbs. Each limb has two suction cups. The suction cups are used to stick on to the surfaces. The two limbs are connected to two servomotors, one for each. The air removal from suction cups is done using vacuum pump, controlled by solenoid valves. A microcontroller is used to control the relays that in turn switch electricity to solenoid valves. Suction pipes are used to connect solenoid vales to suction cups. Up and down, right and left movements are controlled by the controller PWM signals, applied to the servomotors. Gears and joints are used to convert the rotational motion of the servos to linear motion of the robot limbs. An air reservoir is mounted on the climbing robot platform as well. The entire platform can find applications in wall cleaning for high rise buildings, wall painting application, may be used for glass cutting if load handling capability is increased, wired or wireless video surveillance, sensing applications like weather monitoring station etc.