Gecko-Inspired Adhesive Outperforms Current Methods

  • Magazine Article
  • TBMG-27853
Published November 01, 2017 by Tech Briefs Media Group in United States
Language:
  • English

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University and Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems have developed a soft gripping system that uses differential air pressure and a gecko-inspired adhesive for exceptional bonding to three-dimensional objects. The findings were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.