Harvard HAMR-E micro climbing robot is designed for jet engines

Harvard University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering and the SEAS have created a new insect-like miniature robot designed with sticky feet to climb around surfaces. Called the Harvard Ambulatory Micro-Robot with Electroadhesion (HAMR-E), the mini-robot was made to climb inside of jet engines for inspection purposes. According to the university, Rolls-Royce approached the Harvard Microrobotics Lab about potentially developing …