MultiTrack: A multi-linked track robot with suction adhesion for climbing and transition

Smooth Vertical Surface Climbing With Directional Adhesion

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

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

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A survey of climbing robots: Locomotion and adhesion

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Sky Cleaner 3: a real pneumatic climbing robot for glass-wall cleaning

Houxiang Zhang, Jianwei Zhang, Guanghua Zong et al. · IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine · 2006 · 166 citations

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