RiSE Project
The goal of the RiSE project is to create a bioinspired climbing robot with the unique ability to walk on land and climb on vertical surfaces. This project is funded by the DARPA Biodynotics Program.
Details of the RiSE platform... System
RiSE climbing walls
RiSE climbing trees
Capabilities
News
March, 2008
Gecko acrobatics
New study on Gecko acrobatics, presented in the article "Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos", is featured in the media: New Your Times, BBC, New Scientist, Berckeley News.
April, 2007
IEEE ICRA 2007
Sangbae Kim, Matt Spenko, Salomon Trujillo, Barrett Heyneman, Virgilio Mattoli and Mark Cutkosky win the IEEE ICRA07 Best Student Paper award with the paper entitled "Whole body adhesion: hierarchical, directional and distributed control of adhesive forces for a climbing robot"
August 2007
RiSE at Darpatech '07
RISE project personnel attended the August 2007 DARPAtech
and presented the RiSE platform and Stickybot prototype.