What do you get when you cross curtain rods, knobs and rings with a bunch of cordless screwdrivers, some cardboard and a Shapelock (Polymorh) plastic? The result is a biomimetic or rather anthropomimetic android robot. The two fascinating projects Android and Cronos are well within capabilities of amatures, for details check  websites:

Android 10 click here and Cronos click here

Hi,

For quite sometime I have been interested in geckobots that use gecko inspired nanotech pads to stick to vertical surfaces like walls. But when you try to build one there is a problem of obtaining material for the pads. Well, here is a different approach to building a biomimetic wall scaling robot using electroadhesion which works by inducing electrostatic charges. Looks to be a lot easier to built from readily available components, now I know what to do with the broken LCD screen from the old laptop.

Here is a link to SRI page explaining the electrically controllable adhesion concept as well as showing their bot on the wall and a video showing the bot on the wall.