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IEEE Spectrum
June 2008
Prachi Patel-Predd |
Wall-Climbing Robot Spies Gecko-inspired robots rely on directional adhesive feet; a new wall-climbing robot uses electrostatic adhesion.   |
Chemistry World
October 10, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Glue beats gecko's sticking power A carbon nanotube-based material has smashed records for sticking power to a vertical surface, and it can be easily peeled away too. |
Wired
November 2002
Tom McNichol |
Why 6-Legged Bots Rule Forget two-legged bots -- forget androids altogether. Bio-guru Robert Full has seen the future of robotics, and it's one part cockroach, one part millipede, one part Internet. |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2008
Michael Gross |
Nanofiber Tape is Sticky Stuff The gecko's ability to walk up vertical walls could soon be copied by humans, thanks to new adhesive materials based on the structures found in its feet. |
Reactive Reports
Issue 75
David Bradley |
Stuck On You The race to find a material as "sticky" as a gecko's foot could soon be over as stronger and more practical materials are reported by a team based at four US institutions. |
National Defense
July 2011
Eric Beidel |
Swarming Robot Teams to Map, Survey Buildings In the future, robots may be the true first responders. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2007
Alex Hutchinson |
Scientists Use Gecko's Spider-Man Grip to Develop Super Tape A team at Ohio's University of Akron has produced a new kind of "gecko tape" that mimics the thousands of hairs on the gecko's footpad. And a Stanford group envisions that tape being used in space. |
National Defense
July 2012
Eric Beidel |
Soft Robots Could Open Up New World of Spy Tactics The Pentagon could turn to tiny soft robots to fit in the nooks and crannies of the battlefield, taking sensors ever closer to the enemy. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Erico Guizzo |
Robots With Their Heads in the Clouds A Google researcher argues that cloud computing could make robots smaller, cheaper, and smarter |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Susan Karlin |
Robotics' Wild Kingdom An engineer looks to nature to make robots that slither through pipes and climb walls. |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
Technology Research News
June 15, 2005
Eric Smalley |
Robot Runs Like Humans Researchers have developed mathematical principals for enabling human-like running in bipedal robots, including the ability to recover balance. They used the principals to develop control software that allows a two-legged robot to run. |
Inc.
April 2006
Chuck Green |
A Record Year For Robots New orders of industrial robots jumped by 23 percent in 2005, thanks in part to growing interest in robots among entrepreneurs. Larger tax credits for purchases of new equipment are driving the trend, as are other factors. |
Fast Company
April 1, 2011
Rachel Z. Arndt |
Fast Talk: Cynthia Breazeal on Teaching Robots The director of MIT's Personal Robots Group uses crowdsourced data to teach robots about human behavior. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
iRobot's Emotional Appeal People's personal attachment to their Roomba vacuums bodes well for iRobot's future prospects. |
