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A robot that drives straight up a wall! 🧱
VertiGo is a robot built by Disney Research with ETH Zürich.
Most wall-climbing robots hold on. Suction cups, magnets, dry adhesives.
All of them need a surface that cooperates, and none of them solve the genuinely hard part, which is getting from the floor onto the wall in the first place.
Two tiltable propellers generate thrust into the wall, pressing four wheels against it hard enough to drive. Each propeller has two degrees of freedom for aiming that thrust, and one pair of wheels steers.
The rear propeller pushes the robot toward the wall while the front propeller pushes upward, and the combination flips it onto the vertical surface. One propeller can hold you on a wall. It takes two to get you there.
This is from the end of 2015, which is worth saying out loud.
A decade later it's still an awesome project in robotics! :)
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