LONDON - A mechanical engineer at Stanford, the UK is developing a technology-inspired adhesive sticky gecko feet. If the technology is successful it allows people to climb on smooth surfaces and vertical.
Mark Cutkosky is successfully developed a gecko-sized robot named Stickybot. This robot can climb surfaces such as wood panels, metal and glass. The technology itself is called a product called Z-Man that will allow people to climb in the same way.
"Unless you use the suction cups (suction hopper-shaped rubber cup, which is slow and inefficient). Another solution out there is to use dry adhesion, which is a technique often used by the gecko," he said, a case reported by Science Daily, Monday (30/08/2010).
Described by him, gecko-inspired robot techniques the same animal. Where this gecko toe contains hundreds of flap, the phones to be thin ten times thinner than human. At the punggunya given spatulae. spatulae a very small, a few hundred nanometers, their role so that they interact with molecules of climbing surface.
Consequently, the gecko can survive and support the entire weight on one leg by placing it on the glass and then pull back.
"This is very different from the tape or duct tape, where if you press it then you have to peel it first," says Cutkosky.
To mimic this, Cutkosky and his team make a rubber-like materials with tiny polymer hair made of micro-scale mold.
The adhesive has a 'hair' of about 20 micrometers wide. So easy robot moves up the wall to the surface with ease.
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