A mucus-excreting robot with a single large foot can effectively imitate the way snails crawl over surfaces – even steeply inclined ones. “I always say that snails are like Michael Jackson to me.

This anchors the robot, allowing the overall bot team to repeat as needed. As an added benefit, the robots can pivot 360-degrees while the suction cup remains adhered.

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A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. Adding to the increasing innovative new ways robots can navigate, the team, based ...

The small snail robot looks like nothing so much as a discarded stick of gum, and is much smaller. At just a centimeter in length, this is not a platform capable of demonstrating much more than ...

Snails are great at climbing vertical surfaces, even though they have just a single wet suction-cup foot. A new robot climbs walls by mimicking that simple yet effective mechanism, although ...

The robot’s sliding suction mechanism enables it to slide on water, mimicking a snail’s mucus that also acts as an adhesive. The study, published in Nature Communications, shows a novel way for robots ...

The "secret" is to "keep the snail as light as possible (31.6 grams), while ensuring the Laponite has just the right stickiness." Er, that's not a secret folks. [Via Robot Gossip] ...

Inspired by a small and slow snail, scientists have developed a robot protype that may one day scoop up microplastics from the surfaces of oceans, seas and lakes. The robot’s design is based on the ...

(Nanowerk News) A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol. Adding to the increasing innovative new ways robots can navigate, the ...

Inspired by a small and slow snail, scientists have developed a robot protype that may one day scoop up microplastics from the surfaces of oceans, seas and lakes.