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Atlas Powered Rope Ascender

The Atlas Ascender – is a powered rope or cable ascender/descender capable of, for instance,

  • equipment hauling
  • military special operations (rapidly and quietly scaling a building
  • rescue operations (capable of retrieving casualty in litter and rescuer)

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This image doesn’t do it justice. There’s a video clip on the Atlas site .  The inventor was an MIT student when he developed this – reportedly as an entry in a DOD-sponsored competition.