Springs bring gecko stickiness to human scale
Climbing glass walls, grabbing space junk get easier with aid from alloy
WALL WALKER Stanford researcher Elliot W. Hawkes, at 70 kilograms, scales a 3.6-meter-high glass wall with gecko-inspired adhesive pads rigged with special stretchy tendons.
Eric Eason
This article is only available to Science News subscribers.
Subscribers, enter your e-mail address to access our archives.
