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Gecko Feet and Antigravity

Posted by Hemos on from the cool-sci-tech dept.

A number of people have e-mailed about the gecko page. It's a pretty interested article about a project to construct wall-climbing robots, and the science involved.

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  1. NPR: All things considered piece by Shin+Dig · · Score: 4

    There was actually a piece on All Things Considered last night on this as well. It can be found in real media format here.

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    There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors than zombies or vampires anyway.
  2. Article from MSNBC by narsiman · · Score: 4

    Check out msnbc's article on similar lines.

  3. Gotta love the "Robot Swarms" they're working on.. by GoodPint · · Score: 4
    My favourite project of theirs has to be the software they're working on to control robotic "swarms". The robots communicate using infrared, and the system is designed to tolerate loss of individual units while being very scaleable (10k units).

    It reminds me a lot of Kevin Kelly's (ex-editor of Wired) book "Out of Control :The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World" which discusses the impact biology will probably have on technology.

    GoodPint