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Home » Robots » The Wall-​​Crawling Bot

The Wall-​​Crawling Bot

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Yesterday it was Congo, today its Minority Report.

Well, sort of.

They dont look quite as creepy as the spi­der bots that crawled under door­ways and scanned bath tub sur­faces in the Tom Cruise hit, but you can see that it might only take a few years to make them that way.

A North Carolina com­pany has devel­oped a tech­nol­ogy that can give robots the abil­ity to climb sheer walls. Vortex Holdings, LLC ginned up the so-​​called Vortex Regenerative Air Movement tech­nol­ogy that cre­ates a tor­nado in a cup, mak­ing it pos­si­ble for small pay­loads of up to 3.5 pounds to be adhered to walls.

But Vortex took the tech­nol­ogy one step fur­ther, installing the VRAM device to a mobile plat­form one that crawls along the walls in any direc­tion, even mak­ing the tran­si­tion from ver­ti­cal to hor­i­zon­tal sur­faces.

Take a look at some of the videos.

Its easy to see the poten­tial mil­i­tary and law enforce­ment appli­ca­tions of such a device, espe­cially in urban fights where snoop­ing around the cor­ner and peer­ing over that win­dow ledge could mean the dif­fer­ence between pop­ping the bad guy and hit­ting civilians.

Ill let DT read­ers decide whether this kind of thing could poten­tially result in unwar­ranted and exces­sive intru­sion into civil­ian life.

(Gouge: RC)

– Christian

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  1. The Cenobyte says:
    June 29, 2007 at 9:48 am

    Could it result in unwanted snoop­ing, you bet. However if that think is stuck to the side of my house and the police don’t have a war­ent, it’s game over for the police. So in the end I am much less wor­ried about some­thing like this than say high pow­ered cam­eras on poles, infrared, UAVs and ranged lis­ten­ing devices. All of these will allow law enforce­ment much more access to your per­sonal lives with­out ever need­ing a war­ent at all.

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  2. nb says:
    June 29, 2007 at 11:07 am

    I would think that if the police were to rou­tinely use such a device, bypass­ing a war­rant, they would have seri­ous prob­lems. It would after all still be tress­pass.
    Another inter­est­ing use of course might be attach­ing an explo­sive device.

    Reply
  3. MattS says:
    June 29, 2007 at 8:37 pm

    lol not exactly stealthy when it comes to the amount of noise these toys make.

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