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, ...

Three frames from a video (below) showing a 70 kg climber ascending a 3.7 m vertical glass surface using a synthetic adhesion system with degressive load-sharing and gecko-inspired adhesives.Even ...

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 ...

The Greek philosopher Aristotle once questioned how a gecko could climb different surfaces. The answer, uncovered 2,000 years later, is weak intermolecular forces called Van der Waals forces. The ...

A state of the art bouldering and climbing gym will soon open in Darwin, offering a community active space to escape the Top End heat. Here’s what to expect. Gecko Climb is due to open mid next year ...

NASA robots may climb the walls of the International Space Station one day using grippers inspired by the super-adhesive feet of geckoes. Scientists at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

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, ...