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An interesting
video from the Ben Gurion University Deparment of
Mechanical Engineering Robotics
Lab turned up on YouTube today. It shows an "underconstrained
cable suspended robot capable of maneuvering from one stance space to
another by clinging to new contact points." The robot actually
shoots "webs" like Spiderman that adhere to surfaces and allow the robot
to move around while suspended. There's not a lot of information to be
found but what we do know is that the researchers are interested in
motion planning. Among the researchers credited in the video are Dr.
Amir Shapiro, Alon Capua, Yoav Tov, and Nati Michaeli. If anybody
has a link to the juicy technical details on this bot, please post it in
a comment, we'd love to know more.
   

http://robots.net/article/2906.html