So, this is CLIMBeR.

You a mountain climber?

This climber was snow blind.

This climber is on the last pitch of it.

They tried to radio a message to Rob Hall, who was a superb climber stuck, sort of, with a weak climber up near the summit.

Who but a dreary climber would have taken on this role?

Now, he's a rock climber, but you know, he's our executive director.

This robot is called CLIMBeR Cable suspended Limbed Intelligent Matching Behavior Robot.

Narrator Lynn Verinsky, a professional climber, who appeared to be brimming with confidence.

And before the war, you were the greatest mountain climber in the world.

And one more climber should have died that day, but didn't, and that's Beck Weathers.

We also got some bad news in the storm that Beck Weathers, another climber, had collapsed in the snow and was dead.

You can see on this climber, we have two oxygen tanks in the backpack little titanium tanks, very lightweight and we're not carrying much else.

In this talk from TED University 2009, veteran rock climber Matthew Childs shares nine pointers for rock climbing. These handy tips bear on an effective life at sea level, too.

And a professor in the University of Massachusetts, in the zoology department, bought this climber because she wanted to study the insect diversity of the top of the tree canopy.

At TEDxNASA, Dennis Hong introduces seven award winnning, all terrain robots like the humanoid, soccer playing DARwIn and the cliff gripping CLIMBeR all built by his team at RoMeLa, Virginia Tech. Watch to the end to hear the five creative secrets to his lab's incredible technical success.