Robot Sticks to Ceilings by Vibrating a Flexible Disc
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The paper that is the source of the footage in the video: https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.04777
Bernoulli effect in its different emanations.
A more practical use of is to just use compressed air to create vacuum like Bernoulli suckers do
It's convenient because this way air tools don't need separate vacuum hoses (which are way more expensive, and bulkier than air hoses.)
I have very high ceilings.
It might also be quite useful for examining the outside of high skyscrapers for maintenance, if you need to get a camera up there.
https://azbigmedia.com/lifestyle/how-a-window-cleaning-robot...
What would be the point of a ceiling roomba? Are ceilings ever that dirty to require regular vaccumming?
However, that shows there is demand for paint on high ceilings. A robotic arm, with an AI that is able to paint the corners and circumvolutions with a brush, that is able to retouch if a spot was missed?
Maybe in the future, luxury will be in high ceilings that are clean and renovated. Imagine how dusty the paintings are in churches and palaces - imagine we could brush off the dust and restore their intensity every 6 months.
(I don't know whether they can actually do ceilings or only vertical surfaces for now, but it seems if you could build the latter product you would also be able to make the former)
A mop robot takes care of the entryway and kitchen. It really needs some exterior mop robots because they're constantly dirty.
They demonstrated various frequencies and weights. Maybe various designs with multiple speakers too?
IIRC, the author mentioned they patented it, but couldn't go anywhere with it.
Unfortunately, I can't find it anymore. I'll keep looking a bit and edit or post below if I do.
I didn't downvote your comment in case you wrongly took it as a mark of respect.
A BAD pun is really a good one. Look at the social reaction. This might not be universal, but it's at least common across different cultures.
A bad pun is just that.
The mark of a mediocre pun is apathy. The mark of a well executed pin is the resulting groan.
This is the same sort of application but a completely new method for the suction effect.
It's the perfect tool to ride across the ceiling, steal a coworker's lunch, their stapler, and/or shoot NERF minidarts at them.
Wait until these are integrated into wearbles - gloves, shoes, a back-pad etc..
Also - overhead delivery pathways. Can you get more load capacity with one large disc or many small discs?
If the bot can follow a magnetic tape along a path this could be a delivery mecanism in facilities of the future.
Whate would be interesting is if there were a low-voltage track that it ran a connection to for power - or an inverter coil on the top side of the delivery track to provide constant wireless power to the 'suctioned' devices crawling along its path.
This thing could revolutionize a lot of deliver mechanisms -
Put them along hospital corridors within a tube/enclosure such that delivery bots can peddle about the hospital unheeded and without impeding existing traffic....
I WANT one - how make?
Things crawling on the ceiling of occupied spaces.. what could go wrong?
Edit: Y'all don't know about the Space Elevator ? There was a competition to figure out how to get a thing to climb a really long rope to space... This looks like it could do it
But as you astutely mention, how do we construct such a ribbon? ... Great question.
I guess we just need a continuous graphene-making builder robot.
If it were me, I would arrange a dozen or so ribbons in a circular configuration for redundancy with a platform climber made mostly from carbon fiber and covered in multilayer insulation.