Disney's VertiGo robot can climb walls just like Spiderman

Apparently Disney does more than buy movie franchises like Star Wars. It's also in the business of creating physics-bending robots.

That's right. Disney announced Tuesday that Disney Research Zurich, along with ETH, an engineering, science, technology, mathematics and management university, has developed a robot that can climb walls.

It's called VertiGo and it's capable of making a near-seamless transition from the ground to climbing a wall. It's capable of mind-boggling wall riding thanks to a pair of tiltable propellers that provide thrust onto the wall, effectively sucking it against the vertical surface. Read more...