When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While the Curiosity rover is adept, it can't climb walls or scale the polar caps on Mars. To push ...

RoboSimian can walk on four legs, crawl, move like an inchworm and slide on its belly. In this photo, it stands on the Devil’s Golf Course in Death Valley, California, for field testing with engineer ...

LEMUR can climb walls with special gripping feet, and is only one of a suite of climbing NASA robots. NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA has built many adventurous robots that can fly in space, land on alien ...

While rovers like Curiosity are doing a bang-up job exploring extraterrestrial terrain, they don't have the capability to scale cliffs and other hard-to-reach places. That's a job best left to ...