But when it comes to wall-climbing robots its hard to go past the humble gecko for inspiration. The gecko's specialized toe pads containing hair-like structures that allow it to scale smooth ...

Like a gecko, which can hang on to sheer glass with just one toe, the climbing bot uses what physicists call Van der Waals forces to stick to the wall. Its tanklike tracks are covered in a dry ...

Robots do all sorts of things, but climbing walls seems to be a goal engineers can't live without. Meet the Waalbot which is fitted with gecko-like micro fiber feet that can stick to vertical and ...

The material could prove useful for a range of products, from climbing equipment to medical devices. One of my predictions from 2006 was that there would be artificial gecko like wall climbing. [Gecko ...

DARPA's Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a 218-pound climber ascending and ...

the quadruped robot is inspired by the wall- and ceiling-climbing capabilities of the gecko. Whereas the lizard utilizes tiny hair-like footpad structures called setae, however, Magnecko uses ...

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 ...

In contrast, if one were to somehow try climbing walls with real gecko feet, a climber weighing about 155 lbs. (70 kg) would require a sticky surface at least 186 square inches (1,200 square ...

"This difference is critical because if you're climbing up vertical surfaces ... "With friction only, a gecko would fall from a wall or ceiling. With directional adhesion, a gecko can stop ...

"This poses a problem for larger climbing animals because ... "If a human, for example, wanted to climb up a wall the way a gecko does, we’d need impractically large sticky feet – and shoes ...

Winkler says his device, which means "automatic lizard-climber" in German, took its inspiration from the gecko, the wall-climbing lizard that can generate up to 90 pounds of gripping strength.