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The paper presents an introduction to the main areas driving the development of climbing robots; the reasons for the climbers arise because many applications (including the nuclear and process industries, underwater operations, forestry work and the construction sector) require robotic intervention due to the hazardous environments encountered and because normal routes of access are not available. The status of climbing robots is presented covering the machines developed throughout the world with particular emphasis on the climbing aspects. In addition the future requirements for such mobile machines and how they can be achieved is described.
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Virk, G.S. (1998). Climbing robots. In: de Almeida, A.T., Khatib, O. (eds) Autonomous Robotic Systems. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 236. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0030810
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