When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While the Curiosity rover is adept, it can't climb walls or scale the polar caps on Mars. To push ...

RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer ...

While rovers like Curiosity are doing a bang-up job exploring extraterrestrial terrain, they don't have the capability to scale cliffs and other hard-to-reach places. That's a job best left to ...

The climbing robot LEMUR rests after scaling a cliff in Death Valley, California. The robot uses special gripping technology that has helped lead to a series of new, off-roading robots that can ...

LEMUR can climb walls with special gripping feet, and is only one of a suite of climbing NASA robots. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has built many adventurous robots that can fly in space, land on alien ...

A research article by scientists at the Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics developed a neural control algorithm to coordinate the adhesive toes and limbs of the climbing robot. The new ...