ANDY TORBET:Now I'm not a bad climber, but a gecko can climb vertically, horizontally, even upside down. Yeah that's not so easy. And they can do all this at speed with almost no effort.

Have you ever seen a gecko run up a tree or fence? They are very fast, and they seem to stick to just about anything ... Bio-inspired researchers are also currently working on making robots that can ...

That's what enables geckos to climb smooth surfaces like glass effortlessly. Spiders, cockroaches, beetles, bats, tree frogs, and lizards all have varying-sized sticky footpads that use these same ...