Engineers finally succeed at building a robot that climbs smooth walls with ease and shuffles across ceilings without crashing to earth – just like a gecko!
Owen Bowcott joins Professor Jim Scanlan from the University of Southampton, whose academics are developing data-gathering drones for commercial customers
26 Aug 2011: Ben Child: Director Shawn Levy's 'Rocky v Robot Wars' movie looks technically fabulous – but will it push all the right boys' own buttons? Watch the first round of footage here