{"id":109865,"date":"2020-07-13T14:03:43","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasas-new-gecko-robot-can-climb-just-about-everything-like-the-lizards-feet"},"modified":"2020-07-13T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T21:03:43","slug":"nasas-new-gecko-robot-can-climb-just-about-everything-like-the-lizards-feet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/nasas-new-gecko-robot-can-climb-just-about-everything-like-the-lizards-feet","title":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s new gecko-robot can climb just about everything like the lizard\u2019s feet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nav3UlB93wg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What is more powerful than suction cup and even a vacuum pump, but was not invented by humans?<\/p>\n<p>Answer: a gecko\u2019s foot. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/directorates\/spacetech\/spinoff\/New_Commercial_Robot_Copies_Geckos_Toes\">NASA has decided to copy the lizard\u2019s incredible gripping technology<\/a>, which relies on <a href=\"https:\/\/chem.libretexts.org\/Bookshelves\/Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry_Textbook_Maps\/Supplemental_Modules_(Physical_and_Theoretical_Chemistry)\/Physical_Properties_of_Matter\/Atomic_and_Molecular_Properties\/Intermolecular_Forces\/Van_der_Waals_Forces\">electrostatic attractions<\/a>, in its Gecko Gripper robot. This is not coming from an internet troll trying to sell car insurance. The space agency partnered with <a href=\"https:\/\/onrobot.com\/en\">OnRobot<\/a>, which specializes in finger-like robotic grippers, to create a device that can (so far) lift 14 pounds. The radiation-resistant pads could literally mean a huge step forward for getting around in space.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is more powerful than suction cup and even a vacuum pump, but was not invented by humans? Answer: a gecko\u2019s foot. NASA has decided to copy the lizard\u2019s incredible gripping technology, which relies on electrostatic attractions, in its Gecko Gripper robot. This is not coming from an internet troll trying to sell car insurance. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-robotics-ai","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}