A wall-climbing robot powered by technology inspired by Formula One racing is helping engineers inspect hard-to-reach places including bridges, dams, cooling towers and other massive, vertical ...

The hand holds on the Nova are a pretty far stretch from the usual polyurethane grips found at the indoor rock climbing gym. Image courtesy of LUNAR Europe This climbing wall doubles as a piece of art ...

Engineers have used a variety of techniques to create robots that can scale walls – “the Climber” uses a rolling seal, while the insect-like robots from SRI have caterpillar tracks with ...

Walls can’t hold [Elijah Cirioli]. The would-be superhero has been busy scaling the sides of buildings using his self-contained vacuum climbers. (Video embedded after the break.) After being inspired ...

Sport climbing made its Olympic debut on Tuesday, with 17-year-old Colin Duffy and Nathaniel Coleman of Team USA qualifying for finals. The men’s combined qualification in speed, bouldering and lead ...

Climbing at Princeton University is alive and well. For more than two decades, the OA climbing wall has been the home and the focal point for climbing at Princeton. Thousands of Princeton students, ...