At IFA 2025, we noticed that nearly every major robot vacuum maker is setting stakes in the stair-climbing frontier. reading time 3 minutes Stair-climbing robot vacuums are actually about to be a ...

A wall-climbing robot could replace people in building inspections and one day survey urban war zones, where corners, rooftops and building materials thwart otherwise capable robots. The City Climber ...

What’s happened? Led by robotics Ph.D. student Paul Nadan, a team at Carnegie Mellon University has been developing the extraordinary Loris robot for several years. The latest version of the robot, ...

That's where the magnetic-footed Magnecko robot is intended to come in. Created by a team of eight engineering bachelor students at Switzerland's ETH Zurich research institute, the quadruped robot is ...

This robot is designed in the style of a tank with 2 parts, connected by a central joint. When climbing, the rear segment of the tank is responsible for preloading the front against the wall to ensure ...

MIT has taught its 40kg Cheetah 3 robot to run across rough terrain and climb litter-strewn staircases by touch alone. “There are many unexpected behaviours the robot should be able to handle without ...

Scientists have created a four-legged bio-inspired robot that climbs like no other. It clings to rough vertical surfaces utilizing a unique mechanism that is highly effective, yet at the same time ...

RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer ...

Using "chimney climbing," the robot dog Kleiyn moves upward between two walls. It does this 50 times faster than the previous record holder. A team of scientists at the Jouhou System Kougaka ...