Gecko-inspired adhesives can help humans climb and may provide a better grip for robotic arms in factories and in space.
Forget Spider-man, and meet Geckoman. Researchers at Stanford University have created a gecko-inspired human climbing system that allowed a grad student to scale a glass wall using two hand-sized sticky pads.
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