{"id":620407,"date":"2024-05-14T17:36:21","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/new-snail-inspired-robot-can-climb-walls\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T17:36:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:36:21","slug":"new-snail-inspired-robot-can-climb-walls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/new-snail-inspired-robot-can-climb-walls\/","title":{"rendered":"#New snail-inspired robot can climb walls"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.<\/p>\n

Adding to the increasingly innovative new ways robots can navigate, the team, based at the Bristol Robotics Laboratory, fitted the robot with a sliding suction mechanism enabling the device to slide on water, a substitute for a snail’s mucus which also acts as an adhesive.<\/p>\n

The study, which was published<\/a> May 13 in Nature Communications<\/i>, shows a novel way for robots to scale walls easily, potentially changing how difficult-to-access surfaces such as blades of wind turbines, hulls of ships, aircrafts and glass windows of skyscrapers are autonomously inspected.<\/p>\n

These features also endow sliding suction with great potential for future app<\/a>lications in robotic fields, including industrial gripping, climbing, outdoor and transportation.<\/p>\n

Snails can stably slide across a surface with only a single high-payload sucker, offering an efficient adhesive locomotion mechanism for next-generation climbing robots. The critical factor for snails’ sliding suction behavior is mucus secretion, which reduces friction and enhances suction.<\/p>\n


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