Real Spiderman - But Lizard inspired. Super adhesives superior to what lizards use

Ramani Aswath

Ramani Aswath

@ramani-VR4O43 Oct 22, 2024
Biomimicking has come a long way. Studying how the colourful Gekos move has helped Prof Autumn, from Lewis & Clark College in Oregon to come up with controllable adhesion. Sort of real life Spider Man, only inspired by Gekos instead of spiders.

<a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19875247" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The real Spider-Man: Stickiness goes to the next level - BBC News</a>

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  • Ankita Katdare

    Ankita Katdare

    @abrakadabra Nov 10, 2012

    This is super stuff. I remembered covering an article on VoiCE that dealt with re-growing of body organs, similar to the one shown in the movie 'Amazing Spiderman' - #-Link-Snipped-#