Geckos may be good at selling car insurance, but they're even better at climbing walls. Which is why Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab used the acrobatic reptiles as the model for ...

A number of climbing robots have been designed and created by Stanford, but yesterday at Stanford’s National Robotics Week, they unveiled Stickybot III. A new climbing robot capable of sticking to ...

Stickybot has gone through a pretty radical upgrade. You may recall the gecko looking glass walking bot from all over the net. While it was pretty cool, the technology has gone much further. Not only ...

When naming robots, I want to encourage all of you researchers to go for the obvious choice, that way we know what we're getting. Case in point: Standford's StickyBot. Giant robotic booger? No, it's a ...

There is a wide array of obstacles facing the drone deliveries proposed by Amazon and Google. If the deliveries do happen, however, researchers from the mechanical engineering lab at Stanford ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- The science behind gecko toes holds the answer to a dry adhesive that provides an ideal grip for robot feet. Stanford mechanical engineer Mark Cutkosky is using the new material, ...

We thought MIT's slime-climbing robo-snail was pretty, er, slick, but we have to admit that our new fave wall-climber has got to be Stanford's Stickybot. The robot gecko has feet coated with a polymer ...

An open window hundreds of metres up in a sheer glass tower block. No machine could reach it, surely? Step forward an insect-bot, with sticky feet that help it climb. All insects squirt a sticky fluid ...