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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new trend in homes is bringing X Games and REI adventure right into the house. Residential climbing walls now let climbers scale their backyard fences, rec rooms — even bedrooms. Check out a wide ...