Biomimetic Robot Movies for download

October 2008

• New video of Stickybot climbing various surfaces (wood, painted metal, glass) with two-level hierarchical adhesive pads consisting of micro-wedges atop DPS supports. (45 MB Quicktime .mov)
• Mark Cutkosky, Sangbae Kim and Stickybot featured in Weird Connections special for Science Channel program on gecko adhesion. The program also features Kellar Autumn and others on gecko adhesion. Weird_Connections.mov 320x240 Quicktime (106 MB)

August 2007

March 2007

31 July 2006

• Spinybot Movie (55MB Quicktime MPeg4) "Best Video" winner at IEEE ICRA 2006.
    Smaller version of same video (mpeg format, 14 MB)
• Stickybot climbing with directional adhesives and diagonal stride gait (65MByte)

17 June 2006

20Apr2006

• RiSE robot platform (~3Kg) using a hardened version of the compliant spiny toes climbing a rough concrete building at Southwestern Research Institute, San Antonio, TX.
• [ 56 Mbyte Quicktime movie] -- Excerpts from demonstration of climbing the library building without a safety line.
• [ 7.2 MByte Windows Media Player movie] -- Excerpts from an endurance test with detail of toes.
• Short paper about adapting the Spinybot technology to RiSE.

26Nov2004

• Spinybot video encoded using DivX encoder SpinyBotII_v33Divx.avi (51Mbyte) -- plays in Windows Media Player or Quicktime with DivX Encoder plugin installed.
• Spinybot video encoded for Media Player SpinybotII_ICAR.avi (163MByte) -- plays in Windows Media Player or Quicktime.
• Spinybot video for Quicktime (Sorenson 3 compression) SpinyBotII_ICARs3.mov (41MByte) -- Plays in Quicktime. Nearly as crisp as the large version above.

2002-2003