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1. Stickybot video

 

 

 

 

 

 

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07 Jan 2007
NEW
 Wired Science (Jan 3rd 8PM PBS)
 
Video for ICRA2007 is published!!  (4MB)
05 Aug 2006
 
Faster Climbing..Video of climbing at 4cm/sec !!(8MB)
28 June 2006
 
: The first Video of climbing with diagonal stride(60MB)  Faster! (0.8m/min)
05 June 2006 : The first reliable climbing on glass surface using directional adhesive
        --  Stickybot climbing with anisotropic adhesive  (2 MB).
1 Apr 2006 :The first climbing with isotropic polyurethane sandwich pads(~1mm thick,with 300 micrometer cylinders). on glass window
         --  Stickybot_040106.mov (25MB)
         --  First climbing demo (80MB mp4)
23 Mar 2006 :The first run of Stickybot --running on treadmill
         -- 
Stickybotrunning.mov
12 Oct 2005 : Foot actuation detail video. It illustrates how two stage differential mechanism works.
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gecko_sor3.mov (20MB) geckofoot.mp4 .mov(0.6MB): 
7 Sept 2005 :Very first directional pads demonstration with Stickybot foot in action.
         --  Stickypad.mov (12MB)
11 Aug 2005  :Very first prototype of Stickybot foot.
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geckofootv2.mov(9MB):

 

2. Directional Adhesive demonstration video

5 May 06 NEW The video clip describes directional elastomer pillar adhesive, as compared to conventional double-sided tape.  They stick when loaded in shear in the desired loading direction and detach in contrary direction with negligible amount of force.
      -- demonstration movie -- 2 MB version
      -- demonstration movie -- 45 MB version
7 Sept 2005 Very first directional pads demonstration with Stickybot foot in action.
      --  Stickypad.mov (12MB)

3. Spinybot

26 Nov 2004 The video clip shows Spinybot climbing various outdoor surfaces using micro-spine technology
      --   SpinyBotII_ICARs3.mov (41MByte)
28 Jul 2005 Sangbae & Alan on ABC News Video
         --  abc-spinybot.mov   ABC News -site
1 May 2006  iSprawl and Spinybot Featured on DiscoveryChannel.ca Dailey Planet


4. iSprawl

 

 

 


 

  iSprawl High-resol. Pictures

3 Feb 2005 Isprawl on Science central
         --  SciCen640.mov
27 Apr 2004 Fast! (2.3m/sec) running in backyard of BDML at 15bodylengths/sec  
         -- iSprawlRC.mov(2MB)
         -- iSprawl_RC14Mb.mov
 28 Apr 2004 Slow motion video of iSprawl running
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iSprawlSlowMotion.mov (9MB)
13 Aug 2003 Critical function prototype of push-pull Cable system.
         -- Crank_slide.AVI(3.7MB)
         -- Styrofoamhexapod.AVI(1.5MB) 
   3 Jul 2003 The Aquasprawl(very first iSprawl) using hydraulic system  
         -- aquasprawlCD.mov (1.8MB)

BDML media link.