With its Tom Cruise-like talent for scattering straight up walls, the gecko has become one of biomimicry’s favored muses. Studying its feet, scientists have come up with a variety of gecko-inspired ...

PALO ALTO >> Just because they sometimes resemble scenes from a “Spider-Man” or “Mission: Impossible” movie, experiments taking place at Stanford’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab are no ...

For years, researchers have been trying to build a robot that mimics the gecko lizard's ability to scale walls and ceilings of any texture, even glass. But duplicating the specialized biology of the ...

Biologists have long been amazed by gecko feet, which allow 5-ounce lizards to produce an adhesive force equivalent to carrying 9 lbs. up a wall without slipping. Now, a team of polymer scientists and ...

Geckos are, objectively, way better at climbing stuff than people. Our big sweaty meathooks are no match for the wall-scaling optimized toe pads of a small lizard. That’s why a team at Stanford ...

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It's not Spiderman, it's "gecko man," with researchers at Stanford University demonstrating a gecko-inspired climbing technology that allowed a graduate student to climb up a glass wall when fitted ...

The European Space Agency and partners have demonstrated climbing robots that mimic the stickiness of gecko lizard feet, a development that could see hull-crawling automatons attending to future ...