Top tech movies: Creepy-crawly climbing bots and more 1

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Researchers at Case Western University in Ohio, US, are using robots equipped with a cross between wheels and legs -- called "whegs" -- to test a new material that mimics the gravity-defying feet of geckos and insects.
This video shows experiments involving adhesive tape.

Courtesy of Dr. Roger Quinn

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[eujeeves]

would it be possible to achieve the same thing if you ripped off the legs of a bunch of roaches and put them on the robot? hmmm

[BiliosoII]

lol bitchin show

[razerfan000]

Fannybaba is right, the woman in the background is just saying shit and hard words. She should just say 'We took an RC car, put tape on it and made it go up hills and junk'.

[razerfan000]

Lady... WHAT THE FUDGE ARE YOU SAYING?!?! It's just an RC car with tape on it's wheels!

[lloydkgoode]

Anyone remember ZOIDS?

deja vu?

[uchiha1906]

wtf i heard bug tape blah blah robot O_O

[Avalikia]

Hmm, this video also explains why insects clean their feet so often.

[elminz]

So basically a robot with close to square wheels (With indentations between corners) and tape stuck to 4 sides.

Lord, wheres my research on quantum computers, cancer/HIV cures and the rest of the highly important things in the future gone.

(j/k.. this is just mundane though)

[Fizziwig2006]

Maybe, but it could come in useful. The earlier models were very impressive when climbing vertically.

[fannybaba]

its just a little car with stickers on the wheels!

Millions in research grants, FUCK!!!