Boston Dynamics with Stanford, CMU, UC Berkeley, Penn and Lewis & Clark (USA) RiSE Climbing Robot (1)

Boston Dynamics with Stanford, CMU, UC Berkeley, Penn and Lewis & Clark (USA) RiSE Climbing Robot (2)

Not soldDARPA-funded research consortium robot.

Not for sale (research)Not programmableBoston DynamicsMicrospine feetTree & wall climbingDARPA

Not soldShipping: Not sold. A research robot that was never sold.

Remote control: Not possible. Research platform with no public interface.

Boston Dynamics legacy ↗Kod*lab RiSE page ↗

Overview

RiSE (Robots in Scansorial Environments) was a DARPA Biodynotics project in which Boston Dynamics built a small legged robot that climbed walls, fences, trees and poles using feet covered in tiny hooks rather than adhesives. University partners studied claws, gecko-like adhesives and gait control, producing spin-offs such as Stickybot and SpinyBot. RiSE V1 and V2 were hexapods; the later V3 was a faster quadruped for outdoor poles. The project ran from roughly 2005 to 2009.

Specifications

Category	Crawlers, snakes & climbers · Climbers & inspection crawlers
Released	2006
Availability	Not for sale (research)
Programmability	No programmability
Best for	Professionals & labs
Vision sensors	No vision sensors
Actuators	Unknown
Audio	No audio
Compute type	Unknown
Remote control	Not programmable
Size	~0.25 m long, ~2 kg
Locomotion	Six legs (V1/V2; V3 was a quadruped) with microspine claws, plus a tail for balance on steep surfaces
Compute	Not published
Camera	None documented
Sensors	Not published (leg and foot sensing studied in the project)
Runtime	Not published
Speed	~5 cm/s climbing (Boston Dynamics); ~0.3 m/s on the ground (Make)
SDK	None public