Waalbot is the lightest wall climbing robot we’ve seen and with gecko-like sticky fibre type feet can scale any straight-up surface that other robots would treat as a dead-end.
Designed to be fully autonomous the wheel driven device has the ability not only to climb acute angles but can utilise one of its three spherical pads to reach-out and grab other surfaces of 90 degrees.
The fact it is so lightweight presents some problems in terms of loading it with useful equipment to carry out meaningful tasks at this early stage but stick a squeegee on it somewhere and we’ll happily pay for it to wash the windows.
