Stanford’s Robotics Legacy (2019) (news.stanford.edu)

Another Stanford design that looks interesting are these flying drones with winches, that can attach small cables to objects, then clamp themselves to structures and haul away:

"Stanford researchers modify small flying robots to haul heavy loads"

https://youtu.be/GEJhb93rKlUO

Another interesting robot that was created a year or two after this article:

https://techfinder.stanford.edu/technology/new-soft-robot-sh...

Veritasium did a video segment on it:

https://youtu.be/058hRtaCWC0