Soldiers could soon ditch ropes and climbing gear to scale that next wall in exchange for hand held pads designed after a gecko's feet. The Pentagon's top research arm has started a program called ...

Geckos are likely better climbers than any other animal, so it's no surprise that a number of researchers have tried to copy that ability via man-made technology. One group, from Stanford University, ...

(Nanowerk News) 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 wall of slick glass, the ...

It's an age-old problem for athletes: The more they run and jump every which way, the more likely they are to feel their glasses—sun or otherwise—slip away from a snug position. And you better believe ...

Researchers have used a variety of technologies to give robots the ability to climb walls, such as magnets, rolling seals and electro-adhesive properties. But when it comes to wall-climbing robots its ...

Everyone's wished they had a superhuman ability at some point in their lives. And on the super power scale, the ability to scale glass walls like Spider-Man is right up there at the top — and it's ...

The robot apocalypse may not be here just yet, but we hear that phase one starts with robots that are able to climb walls. If that’s the case, then we’re one step closer to The Matrix Revolutions than ...

Researchers know the secret to geckos' ability to walk on the ceiling: their hairy toes. But how do they use their five toes per foot to adjust to gravity when running horizontally along walls.

Gecko’s sticky feet seem to let the little climbing lizards crawl wherever they want. Now researchers have used the gecko feet’s trade secrets to let robots use that climbing power in space. The idea, ...

image: The science behind gecko toes holds the answer to a dry adhesive that provides an ideal grip for robot feet. Stanford mechanical engineer Mark Cutkosky is using the new material, based on the ...