A Bio-inspired Climbing Robot with Flexible Pads and Claws

Adhesive force of a single gecko foot-hair

Kellar Autumn, Yiching A. Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh et al. · Nature · 2000 · 2.7K citations

Engineering, Adhesive Force, Mechanics +5

Evidence for van der Waals adhesion in gecko setae

Kellar Autumn, Metin Sitti, Yiching A. Liang et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 1.8K citations · Full text

Engineering, Dry Adhesion, Mechanical Engineering +17

Biologically inspired climbing with a hexapedal robot

Matthew Spenko, G. Clark Haynes, J. A. Saunders et al. · Journal of Field Robotics · 2008 · 419 citations

Robotic Systems, Engineering, Biorobotics +20

Wet but not slippery: boundary friction in tree frog adhesive toe pads

Walter Federle, W. Jon. P. Barnes, Werner Baumgärtner et al. · Journal of The Royal Society Interface · 2006 · 369 citations · Full text

Roughness-dependent friction force of the tarsal claw system in the beetle<i>Pachnoda marginata</i>(Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)

Zhendong Dai, Stanislav N. Gorb, Uli Schwarz · Journal of Experimental Biology · 2002 · 340 citations