Hair today, gone tomorrow Everyone knows geckos have extraordinary powers of adhesion, able to clamber up vertical windows with remarkable ease. With the “Geckskin”, a tea... Read more
Few things are as disconcerting, or as curious, as the sight of a gecko or spider skittering effortlessly upside down along the ceiling. This ability is known to be facilitated by microscopi... Read more
Image by Furryscaly via Flickr A Stanford mechanical engineer is using the biology of a gecko’s sticky foot to create a robot that climbs. In the same way the small reptile can scale a... Read more