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The next steps for our project are improving our ability to climb and adapting our design to be able to climb vertical walls of varying distances. In terms of improving our climbing ability, we have identified increasing our output force and improving our wall contact setup. The simplest way to increase output force is to use a strong motor. A stronger motor would transmit more force into our robot which would in turn allow our robot to output more force. Another method would be to reduce the friction within our design so that way our force efficiency is increased. This could be accomplished by allotting a small clearance between the gears, links and base plates to reduce friction. As a result, the same input force would produce a greater output force. For adapting our design to allow for varying distances, we would need to modify our design to be able to extend to the desired distance. However, this would not be the priority for improve our design. The improvements to our robots climbing ability would be the first step to take our design to the next level.