Gecko-Like Drone Can Land On Walls And Ceilings

This quadrotor uses a nature-inspired, dry adhesive to cling to surfaces for extra-covert spying. This drone could become the proverbial fly on the wall. Thanks to a joint research project between the University of Maryland's Autonomous Vehicle Laboratory and Stanford's Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab, there is now a quadrotor that can cling to walls and land on ceilings. Making a drone that sticks to ceilings like a fly is an example of biomimicry, in which researchers try to imitate...