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Researchers at Case Western University in Ohio, US, are using robots equipped with a cross between wheels and legs -- called "whegs" -- to test a new material that mimics the gravity-defying feet of geckos and insects.
This video shows experiments involving adhesive tape.
Courtesy of Dr. Roger Quinn
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In this video test subjects are made to feel as if they were walking in much larger space than in reality.
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This is the very first news story of dozens that followed. To some degree I still think its the best one yet. If it hadn't been for this story back in 1995 Tony's Creepy Crawly Zoo would have been done finished before it started.
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Spider expert talks about an exotic non-native Mexican red rump tarantula now established in Florida. Exotic pets are often released into the wild threatening the existence of native animals and plants.
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This autonomous twin-propeller aircraft is capable of taking off and landing vertically and flying horizontally. Watch a video of the the aircraft taking off, flying, hovering and landing again.
Copyright: School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering,
University of Sydney.