Abigaille, climbing robot, MENRVA lab at Simon Fraser University, Metro Vancouver, Canada

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Menrva is an international and multicultural research group at Simon Fraser University led by Dr. Carlo Menon. The Menrva lab is located in Metro Vancouver.

menrva.ensc.sfu.ca (http://menrva.ensc.sfu.ca/)

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Abigaille-III Climbing Robot

Uploaded on Jan 6, 2014


Abigaille-III is a hexapod climbing robot based around a FPGA. It uses PDMS dry adhesives (gecko inspired) to stick to and climb smooth vertical surfaces. This robot was developed in the MENRVA lab at Simon Fraser University

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