Researchers know the secret to geckos' ability to walk on the ceiling: their hairy toes. But how do they use their five toes per foot to adjust to gravity when running horizontally along walls.

A scientist from California has made scaling walls à la Spider-Man a reality – with inspiration from a little lizard species. Elliot Hawkes, a PhD candidate in biomimetics engineering at Stanford ...

Most pool cleaners simply move around on the bottom of your pool however the NaTiddy Gecko Plus has been specifically designed to automatically climb the walls of your pool and clean them just as well ...

PITTSFIELD -- They won't be selling car insurance, but geckos galore will fill Berkshire Museum galleries this summer when the visiting exhibit "Geckos: Tails to Toepads" opens Saturday at the century ...

(Nanowerk News) A tiny robot that could one day help doctors perform surgery was inspired by the incredible gripping ability of geckos and the efficient locomotion of inchworms. A paper on the work ...

Robots with toes? Experiments suggest that climbing robots could benefit from having flexible, hairy toes, like those of geckos, that can adjust quickly to accommodate shifting weight and slippery ...