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The wall-crawling robot Abigaille can thank the gecko for her sticky feet. Meet Abigaille: a six-legged gecko-inspired robot that may one day climb walls in space. The wall-crawling gecko robot is ...

Death-defying robots that crawl over spacecraft are a familiar sight in science fiction films. But in reality, how would they stick to a surface travelling at thousands of kilometres per hour while ...

In a few years, the exterior of the International Space Station could be crawling with geckos. It’s not an alien invasion, or the plot of a low-budget sci-fi movie. The robotic geckos could follow ...

The substance, described in the journal Nature Materials, consists of a tape covered with a dense array of microscopic hairs -- much like the hairs covering the soles of a gecko’s feet. The climbing ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Meet Abigaille: a six-legged gecko-inspired robot that may one day climb walls in space. The wall ...