A new study by the University of Cambridge's Department of Zoology has compared 225 different climbing creatures to reveal that the ability to scale vertical surfaces using adhesive pads is one that's ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have developed an adhesive that is the first to master the easy attach and easy release of the reptile’s padded feet. The material could prove ...

A new anti-sliding adhesive developed by engineers at the University of California, Berkeley, may be the closest man-made material yet to mimic the remarkable gecko toe hairs that allow the tiny ...

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 ...

For the first time ever, a human has scaled a glass wall using a reversible adhesive inspired by gecko feet. The DARPA-funded research that developed the polymer microstructure technology on handheld ...

A scientist from California has made scaling walls à la Spider-Man a reality – with inspiration from a little lizard species. Elliot Hawkes, a PhD candidate in biomimetics engineering at Stanford ...

Latest research reveals why geckos are the largest animals able to scale smooth vertical walls -- even larger climbers would require unmanageably large sticky footpads. Scientists estimate that a ...

A new material relies on millions of tiny plastic fibers that can grip solids as the fabric slides across them, then quickly release those objects when pulled away vertically. The technology is based ...