[HN Gopher] Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wal...
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       Glewbot scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles
        
       Author : PaulHoule
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-05-17 16:31 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | xnx wrote:
       | Cool bot. I'm guessing there most be some advantages to having a
       | system that climbs the wall instead of descends from a line to
       | justify the extra complexity.
        
         | bobthepanda wrote:
         | Probably more flexibility? A window cleaning type system only
         | really works for a straight segment of wall, plus if you have a
         | human doing it, it's potentially dangerous if anything happens
         | to the system during for example a sudden high wind event.
         | 
         | you could use one robot for this, but on a building like the
         | empire state building you would need one for each level's 4+
         | sides of wall.
        
       | amacneil wrote:
       | Gecko Robotics[0] are doing similar things.
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       | [0] https://www.geckorobotics.com/
        
       | dansitu wrote:
       | It's a great feeling to see a cool robotics project on the front
       | page of Hacker News and realize they used your software
       | (http://edgeimpulse.com) to train the machine learning component!
       | 
       | Congratulations to the authors. Now I better stop reading HN and
       | get back to work :D
        
       | jonah wrote:
       | To me "Gecko" implies van der Waals forces[1] which this does not
       | use. It just uses suction cups. The only Gecko part is a tail for
       | balance/counter-force.
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       | [1] https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.192252799
        
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