Nov 4 2010DO NOT WANT (Scaling The Side Of My Apartment Building): Wall Climbing Robots
There are good ideas, bad ideas, and then Japanese wall climbing robots. Sure they still require rungs to climb, but wait till they evolve. If you think in a couple years they won't be able to climb sheer glass you've got another thing coming. Namely, a robot climbin' in yo windows, snatchin' yo people up. Bed intruderbots.
These three guys have been gradually climbing up and down a 15-minute wall in 20-minute intervals for more than half a year. Again, for no particular reason from what I can tell, except to entertain us.
First of all, the robots are slow as hell and, on an entertainment scale from 1 - 10, are a 2, tops. Same goes for SNL. I've been going through my DVR watching all the recent shows and -- more often than not -- would rather stare at the floor. Just sayin', you know it's bad when I start looking for patterns in the carpet.
Hit the jump for a boring video of the future bed intruders doing their thing.
wall-climbing robots: real life crazy climbers [technabob]
Reader Comments
1. Dat Firstard - November 4, 2010 10:38 AM
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2. candle burning at both ends - November 4, 2010 10:41 AM
SNL SUCKS ITS TURE
3. ShortCircuit - November 4, 2010 10:42 AM
#5, is alive!!
4. naas - November 4, 2010 10:49 AM
All the robophobes out there can stop wetting their pants because they won't chase you with no feet
5. Michelle - November 4, 2010 10:49 AM
They look like logo men
6. Michelle - November 4, 2010 10:50 AM
Lego* What I get for posting fast at work trying to avoid being seen.
7. naas - November 4, 2010 11:10 AM
@6 bad news... someone knows what you're up to
8. donotwant - November 4, 2010 11:36 AM
yawn
9. mandisa - November 4, 2010 11:41 AM
ROFL @ the bed intruder tie in. Sweet.....
10. naas - November 4, 2010 11:43 AM
GW has gone a little wigger today y0
11. Pelona - November 4, 2010 11:47 AM
Eleventeenth!
12. Math - November 4, 2010 12:07 PM
Finally, they invented something that can play on a jungle gym. Now I can get rid of my 4 year old.
13. Jen - November 4, 2010 12:23 PM
I really like that guys boutonniere.
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15. -Noah- - November 4, 2010 12:50 PM
How tall is a 15 minute wall?
16. shadwag - November 4, 2010 12:57 PM
haha. run and tell that, homeboy.
17. Ryan - November 4, 2010 12:59 PM
I was waiting for the robot to 'figure out' the distance between the rungs, and immediately shoot to the top at a breakneck speed.
18. John - November 4, 2010 1:24 PM
Why are they wearing thongs?
Robothong!
19. BJ my PENN - November 4, 2010 1:40 PM
hide yo kids
hide yo wife
20. Ed - November 4, 2010 5:34 PM
I get the feeling it could go faster if they had made it better.
21. the_tof - November 4, 2010 6:08 PM
As cool as the idea is, this would be WAY more impressive if they were actually climbing a WALL instead of a LADDER thinly disguised as SCAFFOLDING.
They should call them "scaffolding near a wall climbing robots."
22. Dan - November 4, 2010 6:34 PM
waiting for what happens when the polls run out
23. Ambarina - November 4, 2010 9:33 PM
this is kinda OLD!
The robots were shown in the World Expo in Shanghai this year... it was quite a boring show i must say, but better than the dancing chinese...
24. qweqweqweqweq - November 5, 2010 7:54 AM
looks like they´re prepairing to get to the goats !
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26. Mark - November 6, 2010 10:51 PM
@25 - too funny!
Is it just me, or does this seem like rather pointless technology?