Robot Tarzan can swing from cables to monitor crops

There's a whole niche of childhood development pontification relating to monkey bars. It's good for muscles, it's good for motor skills, and it's a great way to break an arm and therefore develop character! (I didn't read the literature too closely.) Since robots are our machine babies, the development of a robot Tarzan marks an important milestone.
As spotted by Engadget, the Tarzan bot was developed by researchers at Georgia Tech. The motion was actually modeled after the efficient movement of