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Geckos can climb up walls and across ceilings thanks to the millions of tiny hairs, or setae, on the surface of their feet. Each of these hairs is attracted to the wall by an intermolecular force called the van der Waals force, and this allows the gecko's feet to adhere. Stickybot, developed by Mark Cutkosky and his team at Stanford University in California, has feet with synthetic setae made of an elastomer. These tiny polymer pads ensure a large area of contact between the feet and the wall, maximising the van der Waals stickiness. The Pentagon is interested in developing gecko-inspired climbing gloves and shoes. Cutkosky says a Stickybot-type robot would also make an adept planetary rover or rescue bot.

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: May 29, 2006 at 5:58 am
Author: xtopher42

Length: 0:00:35
Rating: 4.40
Views: 44,400

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AKaustog (Monday 7th of April 2008 12:17:02 PM)

geckos use insanley tiny setae on their toes to create van der Waals force to hold them onto things, they estimate that if all of the surface area of a tokay geckos toes were in contact with a surface it could hold around 90 pounds off of a ceiling.

rcrlf (Wednesday 19th of March 2008 10:15:16 AM)

nice gecko. I have some too.. go check my videos and coment. have fun

KDAWGx7777777 (Tuesday 18th of March 2008 12:43:18 AM)

won si erutuf eht....

fikeebohog (Sunday 2nd of March 2008 04:47:43 PM)

its using dry adhesion so it it does not get dirty like you would think it does.

brandon071791 (Saturday 9th of February 2008 01:16:37 AM)

does anyone know whats used on the Geckos hands?..or is it just suction cups?

fikeebohog (Sunday 2nd of March 2008 04:46:33 PM)

read the video description. Real Geckos have hair like suction cups called setae. This Robot has synthetically made setae.

o0Minky0o (Saturday 19th of January 2008 09:07:30 AM)

omg does anyone know wha this means... SPIDEY CAN EXIST NOW!!!! :O

mazdaplz (Wednesday 23rd of January 2008 10:30:05 PM)

that's exactly what i was thinking

pigcowoinkmoo (Monday 7th of January 2008 08:41:58 AM)

WOW. =] 3 words... I WANT ONE

axorozzas (Monday 3rd of December 2007 08:58:33 AM)

Wow that's amazing!The gait looks just right. If it could do it faster it would be just like a gecko

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