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LVX23 says:
Check out this cool "autonomous wheeled climbing robot"
from the French Autonomous Systems Lab. They call it the "octopus". Now if only they could hack a humvee body on top…
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Correction: BoingBoing reader Carrick says, "the octopus robot is not from the "French" Autonomous Systems Lab, rather it's from a lab of L'Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland.