Super-Strong Tiny Robots Pull Heavy Loads

YT "Two robots borrow techniques from both inchworms and geckos to climb up walls while carrying huge loads"
lucky760says...

How is this accomplished?

Is it just thanks to nanoadhesion?

Why do so many videos nowadays demonstrate cool stuff without any sort of explanation. Down-vote!

entr0pysays...

I think because it's meant to go along with their article, not to be watched on it's own.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn27413&utm_campaign=youtubesuperstrongrobot

The details are pretty amazing though.

"The most impressive feat of strength comes from a ground bot nicknamed μTug. Although it weighs just 12 grams, it can drag a weight that's 2000 times heavier – "the same as you pulling around a blue whale", explains David Christensen – who is in the same lab."

lucky760said:

How is this accomplished?

Is it just thanks to nanoadhesion?

Why do so many videos nowadays demonstrate cool stuff without any sort of explanation. Down-vote!

newtboysays...

Good guess.
...and good find @entr0py. That article explains a good bit (but still not all I wanted to know, like how does the 'winch' work?).

lucky760said:

How is this accomplished?

Is it just thanks to nanoadhesion?

Why do so many videos nowadays demonstrate cool stuff without any sort of explanation. Down-vote!

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