The city of tomorrow will be a lot more vertical , as more people are crammed into small spaces . So Berlin designers Julian Adanauer and Christoper Haas have created the Vertwalker , a robot the size of a Roomba that can climb walls and paint on them .
As John Brownleeexplains in Fast Co. Design :
The primary technology that ride the Vertwalker is a canny sealing back talk on the bottom of the Roomba - shaped golem that can hold a vacuum but does n’t create a lot of detrition when move . It was created severally of the Vertwalker by Achim Meyer , a protagonist and collaborator of the automaton ’s creators , but the conception duo over at Sonice immediately see the possibilities : The organisation could be used to give a lightweight robot Spider - Man - corresponding wall crawling powers .
“ The Vertwalker works autonomously with a mend set of regulation that make use of the internal sensors and keep it within a specified area on the wall , ” Adanauer tells Co. Design . “ A approach pattern then emerges from these rules . It can be interesting to see the unexpected graphics that comes when the robot ’s “ perfect ” digital regulation come face to face with an “ imperfect ” material humans . ”
Here ’s a video of the Vertwalker in action :
[ viaFast Co. Design ]
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