Clothbot: a Robot for Flexible Clothes Climbing

Researchers from China's Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology present a climbing robot called Clothbot that can grip and climb on various kinds of clothes. Part of the paper, "System and Design of Clothbot: a Robot for Flexible Clothes Climbing," by Y. Liu et al., presented at the 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation. Learn more: http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/ro...

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[The Franchise]

Sorry, skinny jean emos.

[Zeta Mority]

you could use it for your phone. when you drop it, it'll climb back up :D

[lunarelf]

weird but awesome

[Hamking1]

GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!!! GET IT OFFFF!!!!!!

[Jason Soto]

HA! i was thinking the same thing

:D

[Bruce Leroy]

Lol Ive been preaching about the coming age of artificial intelligence for years. Robots will be far more advanced than us. We will transfer our "souls" to full robotic bodies. It will be the norm. Read about singularity. Ray Kurzweil. Our bodies are no longer useful. Its this realization the Mayans predicted we would have in 2012.

[offamychain]

Why is robot humping dudes leg?

[dubmystep121]

Just wait till it pinches your skin doing that or worse you get thousands of them crawling all over you 0.o

[Shakenbakespeare]

These are definitely going in my steampunk pirate ship story, for patching cannon holes in the sails.

[Jordan Duke]

so you made a bug.

[Xpero Simo]

Will not work for girls :p

[omatredrt]

This is from China. So clearly it will only be used to spy on Foxconn workers that are trying to steal some precious time from the company before they plummet to their death.