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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[REMINDER: take the carpet off my walls back ho.....wait a minute who the hell has carpet on their walls?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[trippy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:03PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout<br><br>freaky deaky swingers]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rekit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:05PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout those still living in the 70's? dunno if this thing could take shag tho, that's a whole 'nother beast.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[OneNut83]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout <br><br>What is it that we need to inspect on 8ft carpeted walls?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[ROCK & REVIEW]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:08PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout Maybe people who have a fancy for carpeted walls... or maybe the robot wanted them... I sense an apocalypse...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[prodigypv]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:11PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout My office building...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[millertime021]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:12PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@OneNut83  LOL! My Dear Ol' Bro in his dinky first apartment used to go to carpet stores and get their scraps.<br><br>To mount on paneling he could place on the walls.<br> <br>In the early 70s.<br><br>Like...groovy...man!<br>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Freakin Ijit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:20PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@trippedout <br>You are right. This would have been so much more useful in the 20's or 70's]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Troels C]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 6:28PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[FIRST! always wanted to do that.... ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katlan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@inestine FAIL....]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Katlan]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@inestine <br>Do what...fail?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[collindow]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:49PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@inestine<br><br>...oblivion]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Alvarez]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 3:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Not even our carpeted walls are safe from the robot upri- Who the hell has carpeted walls? ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TheSpoonyBard]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:07PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@TheSpoonyBard Great if you send it into a dream to steal ideas from people when you hang the dreamer sideways!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[MrFluffyThing]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 9:50PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[This device and $2.25 will get you a ride on the NY subway.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[DigDug]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:21PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[LOL... furry walls.  Anyone that has seen Get Him to the Greek knows what I'm laughing.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Scott]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:29PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA["Designed to move efficiently and in the vein of a human rock climber"<br><br>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.  ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[someguy7234]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:35PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@someguy7234 <br><br>you sir, are a poet]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[rekit]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 6:18PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@someguy7234 <br><br>Must have been a cold day.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Twitchy]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 8:30PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[@Twitchy  <br><br>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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[TickLe MY eLMo]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 8:54PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[When life hands you a Jeffrey, stroke the furry wall...]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[GraVix202]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 2:51PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[For other kinds of dynamic climbing robots see the Robotics Institute's (at CMU) dynamic climbing project: <a href="http://www.dynaclimb.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.dynaclimb.com/</a> ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Wuli]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 3:04PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[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 <br>Perhaps microsoft will fund them :D I would make a contribution, but only if they can get Jobs. <br>Sorry, but they had it coming ;) ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Techtrino]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 3:13PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Plugging my summer project from a few years ago. Not as fast or efficient, but pretty good for 9 weeks and a Vex kit.<br><br><a href="http://www.ned-fox.com/robotics/crack-climber" rel="nofollow">http://www.ned-fox.com/robotics/crack-climber</a>]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Ned]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 4:32PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[So, it climbs up. Then what? Do you poke it with a broom to get it back down? <br>The next contest is to build a bumper switch to put it in reverse.<br><br>(sorry, the smug cube dweller MSI ad photo filled me up with all kinds of snark this morning).]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[SFHandyman]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 4:41PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[All I think of is Get Him to the Greek.  Fuzzy walls!<br><br>I wanna put this sh*t on all my walls.  My house will look like a werewolf!]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[RockTripod]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 5:57PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[There would be no nook or cranny undiscovered in Elvis's Graceland house with this thing. ]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[jow3n]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 7:42PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[Aw crap.<br><br>Now I have to carpet all my walls?]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[Buzz]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 5th 2010 9:36PM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[szamot]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 6th 2010 1:41AM</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Comments on Robot equipped with hook-like claws and pendulum can climb carpeted walls]]></title><link>http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/05/robot-equipped-with-hook-like-claws-and-pendulum-can-climb-carpe/</guid><description><![CDATA[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.]]></description><dc:creator><![CDATA[quadpod]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Aug 6th 2010 2:03AM</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
