'Robosnail' crawls up vertical walls

A team of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has developed a robotic snail that can crawl on vertical walls and traverse ceilings. ‘Robosnail’ was developed to explore and demonstrate mathematical theories to explain a snail’s movement and ability to adhere to walls at all angles.

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