Google has acquired Gecko Design, a firm operating out of Los Gatos, Calif., to help with its Google X special projects laboratory. The acquired company has done design work for a number of ...

Google Inc. said Friday that it acquired mechanical engineering and product-design company Gecko Design Inc. as the Internet-search giant increasingly works on hardware products, rather than just ...

In this study an in vitro analysis of the force and mechanical work required to bite prey items of different size and physical character is combined with an in vivo analysis of prey-handling behavior ...

NASA robots may climb the walls of the International Space Station one day using grippers inspired by the super-adhesive feet of geckoes. Scientists at the space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory ...

It is widely known that geckos and lizards employ dry adhesion system using a combination of microscopic hairs (setae) on their toe pads as well as other aspects of internal anatomy to climb on ...