Now, 'Spiderman' robot that climbs walls to create art

German designers have developed a lightweight robot that has Spiderman-like wall crawling powers and paints a trail of colours in its wake.
Designers from Berlin creative firm Sonice Development created the wall-climbing Vertwalker.
The main technology that drives the Vertwalker is a clever sealing lip on the underside of the robot that can hold a vacuum but doesn't create a lot of friction when moved, 'Mashable' reported.
The technology was developed independently of the Vertwalker by Achim Meyer, a friend and collaborator of the robot's creators.
The designers Julian Adanauer and Christoper Haasover at Sonice immediately saw the possibilities: the system could be used to give the robot Spider-Man-like wall crawling powers.

"The Vertwalker works autonomously with a fixed set of rules that make use of the internal sensors and keep it within a specified area on the wall," Adanauer told fastcodesign.Com.

"A pattern then emerges from these rules. It can be interesting to see the unexpected art that comes when the robot's "perfect" digital rules come face to face with an "imperfect" material world," Adanauer said.
Currently, the Vertwalker only creates generative line drawings and scrawling patterns.
"What we're really interested in is having multiple Vertwalkers performing choreographies on walls. We want it to be like a dance of drones," said Adanauer.

To make this happen, Sonice is currently working on putting a crowdfunding effort together to produce 50 Vertwalkers.
The Vertwalker is currently on display at the Saatchi Gallery in London.