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Old 12-15-2008, 05:10 PM   #1
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Default wall climbing cars

see these new toys, small remote controlled cars , which can drive
on walls, even ceilings :

youtube-video : http://tinyurl.com/5wltfp

and several other videos



here a bigger car, also shown from below:

http://tinyurl.com/696fha



the small car from below:
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Robots climb up the wall (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotics scientist from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beersheeba, Israel, has developed four different kinds of robots that climb up walls.


Video and article here:
http://www.physorg.com/news183100876.html
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