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To: RightWhale; anymouse; RadioAstronomer; NonZeroSum; jimkress; discostu; The_Victor; Centurion2000; ..

They actually built and tested a cable crawler, very interesting.

LiftPort's scale model of a robot lifter successfully made its way up a tether at MIT's Cecil and Ida Green Building.

Credit: Tom Nugent/LiftPort

3 posted on 11/17/2004 8:05:25 PM PST by Brett66 (W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1 W1)

To: Brett66

You beat me to that image. Here is another graphic:

8 posted on 11/17/2004 8:09:00 PM PST by Plutarch

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