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From: nagle@netcom.com (John Nagle)
Subject: Re: Advice on magnetic feet? (climbing a metal wall)
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Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 16:07:47 GMT
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Pat Niemeyer (pat@sbctri.sbc.com) wrote:
> I want to build a very small robot which can climb a metal wall using
> some kind of magnetic feet.....(Snip)

      There's a nice video of a machine that does this on the videotape
from the recent IEEE Robotics conference in San Diego.  It's used for
welding seams on very large cylinders.

					John Nagle

