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 ...

In the future, science fiction told us, we’ll be able to save astronauts from the risk of spacewalks with a little robot that can scoot around the ship’s hull, clinging to the surface with some ...

In a practical demonstration, a synthetic adhesion system enabled a 70 kg human to climb vertical glass with 140 square centimeters of adhesive per hand. They have developed a synthetic adhesion ...

NASA engineers say they've turned to nature – and to the super-sticky feet of geckos – to design robots that may some day climb around the outside of the International Space Station. Using a "gecko ...