Elliot Hawkes

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Projects:

soft vine-like growing robot

Human climbing with efficiently scaled gecko-inspired dry adhesives

Super-strong robots

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Gecko-inspired adhesive lets you climb walls

Published on Feb 25, 2015

Mechanical engineers at Stanford University have developed a substance that mimics gecko toes. Not just for scaling walls in Spiderman-like fashion, the adhesive could help clean up space debris and be used on automobile assembly lines.CNET's Sumi Das visits the research lab where it was created to learn how it works.