We've seen robots that can slither up a tree and shimmy up telephone poles, and now engineers in Hong Kong have developed one that can crawl up trees autonomously. Treebot is the work of Tin Lun Lam, ...

Climbing-capable robots have been around for a while now, but none accomplish the task quite like the Treebot. This inchworm-like automaton, built by researchers at The Chinese University of Hong Kong ...

HONG KONG, July 1 (Reuters Life!) - Inspired by tiny caterpillars, Treebot may be China&${esc.hash}39;s new answer to forest preservation. The slinky robot grips trees with spidery legs to climb and ...

Remember when you didn't consider climbing trees a chore? Treebot doesn't -- but then, it wasn't programmed to know boredom. The robot was designed by a team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for ...

Robots do the darndest things. For your pre-long-weekend amusement, here are three videos of wacky things robots (and one gadget) can do. First up: Treebot, the tree-climbing robot. Yes, robots have ...

Last Saturday, several junior reporters spent the day at the Hong Kong Science Park making friends with robots. Here are their accounts. Ken Cheung At a booth set up by the Chinese University of Hong ...

A fearless mobile robot is helping scientists monitor environmental changes in forests. The hi-tech Tarzan of the robot world, nicknamed Treebot, is the first of its kind to combine networked sensors, ...