LORIS: A Lightweight Free-Climbing Robot for Extreme Terrain Exploration

"LORIS: A Lightweight Free-Climbing Robot for Extreme Terrain Exploration," Paul Nadan, Spencer Backus, and Aaron M. Johnson, in IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, May, 2024.
CMU Robotics Institute: www.ri.cmu.edu/publications/l...
Climbing robots can investigate scientifically valuable sites that conventional rovers cannot access due to steep terrain features. Robots equipped with microspine grippers are particularly well-suited to ascending rocky cliff faces, but most existing designs are either large and slow or limited to relatively flat surfaces such as walls. We present a novel free-climbing robot to bridge this gap through innovations in gripper design and force control. Fully passive grippers and wrist joints allow secure grasping while reducing mass and complexity. Forces are distributed among the robot's grippers using an optimization-based control strategy to minimize the risk of unexpected detachment. The robot prototype has demonstrated vertical climbing on both flat cinder block walls and uneven rock surfaces in full Earth gravity.

[@vingo9119]

So it can walk on the roof then correct?

[@Beyondlife-x9x]

It's eazy hardware wut about it's software the puzzle
By matlab !!! 😂😂😂

[@AnarcoPetista]

NASA needs to use robots on Mars, there is more correct soil than this to do a real test.
Are we going to wait until 2040 to see robots on Mars or the Moon? unnecessary delay