Sing along with me: “Spider-Man, Spider-Man // Does whatever a spider can // He can climb, as you can see // With vacuum suction cups from Zhejiang University.” The innovative suction unit differs ...

Wall-climbing robots that scale the sides of high-rise buildings and clean the glass aren't new. Neither are the Spider-Man-like robots that drive around industrial environments and inspect boiler ...

How do you get a robot to inspect a tank with high vertical walls? If the walls are made of certain kinds of metal, you just stick a magnet on it. But many large tanks utilized in the food & beverage ...

While there already are powered suction-cup devices that allow people or robots to climb walls, they only work on smooth surfaces. Chinese scientists, however, have now developed a system that sticks ...