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    "headline": "Passive Cups Hauled a Robot Up Glass",
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    "body_text": "A wall-climbing robot uses track-mounted bistable suction cups that latch without continuous adhesion power and release as the track moves. The reported prototype climbed glass, wood, metal and painted surfaces vertically, sideways and upside down. In its tests it towed a 7.940-kilogram load, 2.25 times its own weight. The demonstrated surfaces and payload are specific test conditions, not a general guarantee for building maintenance.",
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