Most animals that walk up vertical surfaces – from ants and spiders to geckos and sucker-footed bats – are able to do so thanks to sticky pads on their toes or feet. Now, researchers analyzing the ...

Forget Spider-man, and meet Geckoman. Researchers at Stanford University have created a gecko-inspired human climbing system that allowed a grad student to scale a glass wall using two hand-sized ...

The feat that Tobey Maguire did when he played the role of Spiderman in the movies is no longer limited to works of fiction. Researchers have come up with a Gecko-inspired human climbing system that ...

Marvel comic book superhero Spider-Man would have needed exceptionally big feet to scale tall buildings, say researchers A human could not do what Spider-Man can unless 40% of the body was covered in ...

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 ...