The Next Spider-Man is YOU: Science Friciton Ep 19

A new material allows humans to crawl up walls like Spider-Man. Find out just how close we are to scaling buildings like Spidey in the latest episode of Science Friction. Hosted and created by me, Rusty Ward. Research links below.

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iop Science - How Spiders Crawl Walls
http://iopscience.iop.org/0964-1726/13/3/009/

Stanford - Robo-Gecko
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/august/gecko-082410.html

U Mass Amherst - GeckSkin
http://unifiedpoptheory.com/walk-on-walls-using-geckskin/

DARPA - Z-Man
http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/DSO/Programs/Z_Man.aspx

C-Net - The Future of Wall-Crawling
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57401164-1/the-holy-grail-of-adhesives/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DhEssy3NWw