Stanford SpinyBot

[davepamn]

What are the useful application for designing a robot that can walk up the sides of a building? Will it be able to clean my car?

[sexntuna]

@davepamn The military can further develop it and use it for spying or tactical missions.

The police can use it for certain SWAT operations.

[avrilcomsys]

Great

[kristinaF54]

creepiest robot I've ever seen, just look at it creeping, lol.

[agothor]

I´m impressed but please improve it a bit more so it can walk on the ceiling. I´ll take two of them to paint my ceilings or to change light bulbs.

5/5 for the engineering

[Masterkiller9000]

That could be handy

[Georjisimo]

i`ll love that robot for a toy :D

[manyakols9]

Imagine what robots can do 100 years from now

[W33MAN93]

like spiderman ;)

[shadowsa2b]

every insecure insectophobe's nightmare come true. getting spied on by a giant bug =P

[CommanderOrion732]

I don't think they fulfilled all their objectives. It was noisy, slow, and I'm pretty sure it left some traces. It looked like it used glue to stick to the walls.  I also noticed that in one of the videos it had a guide wire or something.

[NoOne3234]

It doesn't use glue. It uses spines. Also, if they decided to use a belay line for a youtube demo, I wouldn't hold it against them.

(other than that, I really don't have much to disagree with you about.)

[benrweston]

I agree, it is uselessly slow at that stage of developement. Probably because it requires setting the spines in place or something. Some amount of time for the fibers to grip properly. That guidewire is probably a control wire. You'll note it is never actually taught, there is no weight on it.

[Iawsomeusuck]

oh yes this is so hard to make compared to toy dolls that pee

[deviance87]

yes they should be investing more time in robots with bodily functions, like peeing! and other things..

[thadude1337]

UHAHAHAHAH A ROBO-CAM

[fuzzyblacksheep]

how does it go back down

[mrkiky]

can u put that spiny stuff on your hands and feet and climb walls like spiderman? or does it not hold enough weight?

[noclue111]

this is a sign of the apocalypse!

[Kennraie]

i love people like you, so easy to scare.

[nottilus]

thats cool, but ur servo's r weak..

[joeybognar]

see i cant help but think about how the government is going to use all these new robots they are coming up with to be used as surveillance on the citizens. All we need is 1,000's of these flying around the country watching your every move.

[insanity54]

Yeah, like in the movie Minority Report, when them little bots crawl in everyone's house and scan their eyeballs.

[ricefarmer]

i think the gecko feet robot is better

[TCmoru]

See stuff like this is why i subscribed, thats so cool....