These features also endow sliding suction with great potential for future applications in robotic fields, including industrial gripping, climbing, outdoor and transportation. Snails can stably ...

A team of roboticists at the Chinese University of Hong Kong has created a robot snail with a helmet-like shell that moves by rolling around on bulldozer-like tracks. They have published a paper ...

May 14, 2024: New snail-inspired robot can climb walls (Nanowerk News) A robot, designed to mimic the motion of a snail, has been developed by researchers at the University of Bristol.Adding to the ...