Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls
By Laura June 
posted August 5th 2010 2:01PM
posted August 5th 2010 2:01PM
posted August 5th 2010 2:01PM
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REMINDER: take the carpet off my walls back ho.....wait a minute who the hell has carpet on their walls?
@trippedout
freaky deaky swingers
@trippedout those still living in the 70's? dunno if this thing could take shag tho, that's a whole 'nother beast.
@trippedout
What is it that we need to inspect on 8ft carpeted walls?
@trippedout Maybe people who have a fancy for carpeted walls... or maybe the robot wanted them... I sense an apocalypse...
@trippedout My office building...
@OneNut83 LOL! My Dear Ol' Bro in his dinky first apartment used to go to carpet stores and get their scraps.
To mount on paneling he could place on the walls.
In the early 70s.
Like...groovy...man!
@trippedout
You are right. This would have been so much more useful in the 20's or 70's
FIRST! always wanted to do that....
@inestine FAIL....
@inestine
Do what...fail?
@inestine
...oblivion
Not even our carpeted walls are safe from the robot upri- Who the hell has carpeted walls?
@TheSpoonyBard Great if you send it into a dream to steal ideas from people when you hang the dreamer sideways!
This device and $2.25 will get you a ride on the NY subway.
LOL... furry walls. Anyone that has seen Get Him to the Greek knows what I'm laughing.
"Designed to move efficiently and in the vein of a human rock climber"
Last time I was climbing at a wall, there weren't any dudes with their balls swinging 3 feel below them... How times have changed.
@someguy7234
you sir, are a poet
@someguy7234
Must have been a cold day.
@Twitchy
Cold day? last time i checked, when it is cold out, your sack scrunches up, when it is hot, it's flappin' and swingin' in the breeze, maybe i'm opposite sack man though.
When life hands you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall...
For other kinds of dynamic climbing robots see the Robotics Institute's (at CMU) dynamic climbing project: http://www.dynaclimb.com/
Hmm they should use that Geeko "feet" thing which was invented some time ago, then perhaps it could climp cooler things like the apple HQ and blow up... hehe
Perhaps microsoft will fund them :D I would make a contribution, but only if they can get Jobs.
Sorry, but they had it coming ;)
Plugging my summer project from a few years ago. Not as fast or efficient, but pretty good for 9 weeks and a Vex kit.
http://www.ned-fox.com/robotics/crack-climber
So, it climbs up. Then what? Do you poke it with a broom to get it back down?
The next contest is to build a bumper switch to put it in reverse.
(sorry, the smug cube dweller MSI ad photo filled me up with all kinds of snark this morning).
All I think of is Get Him to the Greek. Fuzzy walls!
I wanna put this sh*t on all my walls. My house will look like a werewolf!
There would be no nook or cranny undiscovered in Elvis's Graceland house with this thing.
Aw crap.
Now I have to carpet all my walls?
Those crazy Utah bastards. Didn't anyone tell them that the 70's are over and people stopped putting carpet on the walls and marrying their cousins and living in a commune. Oh wait did you say UTAH? yeah no one did tell them yet.... as you were boys.
Okay, cute robot, but I can only imagine that a radio shack remote control car with Velcro on the wheels could do laps around this thing. That gives me an awesome idea. I think I may just carpet all my walls this weekend.