A team of researchers in the United States has developed a small robot with sticky legs and hinged ends that can climb vertical and sloping surfaces and reach precise, The interior parts of commercial aircraft engines, for example.
"This robot can walk in all directions instead of moving forward and backward only on the flat surfaces, allowing it to explore the whole world and engage with it," says Sebastian de Rivaz of the Weiss Center for Engineering Studies at Harvard University.
"These robots will one day be able to access the hard-to-reach places within the huge machines, which will save the big companies from the high costs of repairing and maintaining them," de Rives said.
The Hummer-E robot was developed jointly by Harvard University´s Weiss Center and John A. Paulson College of Engineering and Applied Sciences in the United States in response to a request from Rolls-Royce, Build an army of small robots that can climb into the large aircraft engines where humans can not reach.
The team had to deal with many complex mechanical and technical problems so that they could build the robot and provide it with four-foot capabilities and stick to the vertical surfaces, and even move in a shifting position thanks to its feet, which can stick to the surfaces that are powered by static electricity.
