The computer generated gecko in the Geico insurance advertisements is cute, but the real creatures are far more interesting. In the new Museum of Science exhibit “Geckos: Tails to Toepads,” visitors ...

The method geckos use to switch their sticky feet on and off could open the door to clever new adhesives or even robots that could by turns cling to walls or rocky surfaces but then spring away with ...

Pseudogonatodes fuscofortunatus is a new gecko species discovered by a team of researchers led by the University of Texas at Arlington. A new species of miniature gecko, not much longer than a match ...

Why did the gecko climb the skyscraper? Because it could; its toes stick to about anything. For a few years, engineers have known the secrets of gecko stickiness and emulated it in strips of rubbery ...

One particularly active area of robotics research involves the exploration of soft parts. Be they legs, artificial muscles or the grippers used to grasp objects, these more malleable components are ...