GENOMICON

This turned up recently

I’ve had my eye on wall-climbing robots for a while, partly because people have obviously poured quite a lot of money into some of them:

And people get all inspired and build their own, using different techniques for a fraction of the price… and obviously (because this always seems to happen) the first applications seem to be toys.

Winning by a country-mile though – and purely on points for style… Stamford’s Stickybot – which is actually modelled on how gecko feet actually work.

(big talk from Robert Full on how engineers learn from evolution)