Suction Cup

Suction Cup

Wall climbing robots using negative pressure suction always employ air pumps which have great noise
and large volume. Two prototypes of bio-inspired miniature suction cup actuated by shape memory alloy (SMA)
are designed based on studying characteristics of biologic suction apparatuses, and the suction cups in this paper
can be used as adhesion mechanisms for miniature wall climbing robots without air pumps.

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