Climbing

Soft wall-climbing robots

Guoying Gu, Jiang Zou, Ruike Renee Zhao, Xuanhe Zhao, Xiangyang Zhu

Citations: 663 • 2018

Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

Matthew Spenko, G. Clark Haynes, J. A. Saunders, Mark R. Cutkosky, A.A. Rizzi, Robert J. Full, D. E. Koditschek

Citations: 425 • 2008

Tail-assisted pitch control in lizards, robots and dinosaurs

Thomas Libby, Talia Y. Moore, Evan Chang-Siu, Deborah Li, Daniel J. Cohen, Ardian Jusufi, Robert J. Full

Citations: 330 • 2012

Scaling Hard Vertical Surfaces with Compliant Microspine Arrays

Alan T. Asbeck, Sangbae Kim, Mark R. Cutkosky, William R. Provancher, Michele Lanzetta

Citations: 322 • 2006

Electroadhesive robots—wall climbing robots enabled by a novel, robust, and electrically controllable adhesion technology

Harsha Prahlad, Ron Pelrine, Scott D. Stanford, John Marlow, Roy Kornbluh

Citations: 274 • 2008

Climbing robots for maintenance and inspections of vertical structures—A survey of design aspects and technologies

Daniel Schmidt, Karsten Berns

Citations: 270 • 2013

Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot

Sangbae Kim, Matthew Spenko, Barrett Heyneman, Virgilio Mattoli, Mark R. Cutkosky

Citations: 255 • 2007

Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos

Ardian Jusufi, Daniel I. Goldman, Shai Revzen, Robert J. Full

Citations: 250 • 2008

Waalbot II: Adhesion Recovery and Improved Performance of a Climbing Robot using Fibrillar Adhesives

Michael Murphy, Casey Kute, Yiğit Mengüç, Metin Sitti

Citations: 242 • 2010

Review article: locomotion systems for ground mobile robots in unstructured environments

Luca Bruzzone, Giuseppe Quaglia

Citations: 237 • 2012

Inverted and vertical climbing of a quadrupedal microrobot using electroadhesion

S. de Rivaz, Benjamin Goldberg, Neel Doshi, Kaushik Jayaram, Jack G. Zhou, Robert J. Wood

Citations: 237 • 2018

A survey of climbing robots: Locomotion and adhesion

Baeksuk Chu, Kyungmo Jung, Chang-Soo Han, Daehie Hong

Citations: 233 • 2010

Innovative gait robot for the repetitive practice of floor walking and stair climbing up and down in stroke patients

Stefan Hesse, Andreas Waldner, Christopher Tomelleri

Citations: 226 • 2010

Gecko Inspired Surface Climbing Robots

Carlo Menon, Michael Murphy, Metin Sitti

Citations: 222 • 2005

Dynamics of rapid vertical climbing in cockroaches reveals a template

Daniel I. Goldman, Tao S. Chen, Daniel Dudek, Robert J. Full

Citations: 219 • 2006

Gait synthesis for the SD-2 biped robot to climb sloping surface

Yuan F. Zheng, Jia Shen

Citations: 214 • 1990

Soft Rod-Climbing Robot Inspired by Winding Locomotion of Snake

Bing Liao, Hongbin Zang, Mingyang Chen, Yunjie Wang, Xin Lang, Nana Zhu, Zheng Yang, Yan Yi

Citations: 205 • 2020

SpinybotII: climbing hard walls with compliant microspines

Sangbae Kim, Alan T. Asbeck, Mark R. Cutkosky, William R. Provancher

Citations: 204 • 2006

Wireless soft millirobots for climbing three-dimensional surfaces in confined spaces

Yingdan Wu, Xiaoguang Dong, Jae‐Kang Kim, Chunxiang Wang, Metin Sitti

Citations: 203 • 2022

Highly mobile and robust small quadruped robots

Jeremy Morrey, B. Larribrecht, Andrew D. Horchler, Roy E. Ritzmann, Roger D. Quinn

Citations: 196 • 2004