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StickyBot, modeled after a gecko, is "a mix of biology, mechanics and motion," claims a YouTube video from its Stanford University designers.
"We wanted to send robots into any environment," said mechanical engineer Salomon Trujillo in the video. StickyBots "work in a vacuum, so we can use them out in space. So we can have robots that can do space exploration or even cling to the side of the space shuttle."
Image: Stanford University.
Video: Stanford University/YouTube.