International Climbing Machines' Climber certainly isn't the
first of its
kind, but we'll admit, this thing can handle some pretty daunting tasks. After successfully lasting through a number of field deployments this year, this wall climber is reportedly ready to take on the world in assignments such as "climbing the surfaces of C-5 / C-137 airplanes, decontaminating a vessel in a Nuclear Power Plant and removing paint from concrete walls for the Department Of Energy." Apparently, this iteration trumps many similar alternatives due to its ability to scale ceilings, rounded / rough surfaces and overcome obstacles that protrude up to 1-inch from a given surface. The rig can be controlled from the ground with a handheld remote, and attachments can be added for painting, cleaning, drilling or just capturing imagery from above. Mum's the word on pricing, but feel free to check out a couple more shots after the jump.
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Gizmag]
posted Nov 21st 2007 8:37PM
Looks like a wall vacuum cleaner to me, but good work.
sweet.... wall roombas! now i'll never have to touch my walls again!
the hard hart doesn't engender much faith in his robot!
I first read "Ice Climbers"
I did the same thing...I need to stop reading the Smash Bros. update page so much.
What kind of controller is that?
Nice, he is using the same xbox controller i had.
I, for one...oh never mind.
I, for one, welcome our robotic,wall climbing, spider-pig-bot, overlords. There you go! Finished it up for you! :-)
Call me when it's cordless and has bluetooth.
Wiimote + Empire state building = Fun
Is that an original Xbox Controller S? Looks like it to me...
be that a gamecube controller
Does the first pic remind anyone of Combine technology or is that only me?
Damn I wanna see a vid of this thing climbing walls... kinda impressive
There is a video in the read link.
Here is the video of the climber in action:
http://www.icm.cc/video.php
This is what I learned from their website:
http://www.icm.cc/climber.php
It uses compressible rollers and track to create a seal to the wall and a vacuum inside the seal holds it to the wall. It has an attachment capacity of about 200 lbs.