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 …

This paper reviews a template for dynamical climbing originating in biology, explores its
stability properties in a numerical model, and presents empirical data from a physical …

This paper presents an integrated, systems‐level view of several novel design and control
features associated with the biologically inspired, hexapedal, RiSE (Robots in Scansorial …

Climbing robots are robotic systems to move over 2D or complex 3D environments such as
walls, ceilings, roofs, and geometric structures and to conduct various tasks. They will not …

A rock‐climbing robot is presented that can free climb on vertical, overhanging, and inverted
rock faces. This type of system has applications to extreme terrain on Mars or for sustained …

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

The RiSE robot is a biologically inspired, six legged climbing robot, designed for general
mobility in scansorial (vertical walls, horizontal ledges, ground level) environments. It …

This paper presents a method to increase the adhesion level of electrostatic adhesives by
optimizing the electrode geometry and using a novel manufacturing technique. Simulation …

To grip rocks on the surfaces of asteroids and comets, and to grip the cliff faces and lava
tubes of Mars, a 250 mm diameter omni-directional anchor is presented that utilizes a …

Climbing animals theoretically should optimize the energetic costs of vertical climbing while
also maintaining stability. Many modifications to climbing behaviors have been proposed as …