Sticky-Bot

This is the latest creation from a research team out at the Biometric Dextrous Manipulation Laboratory at Stanford University. It's a pretty amazing little creation, a robot Gecko known as Sticky Bot. This thing was designed to walk up walls and on ceilings and uses a new anistropic adhesion pad made up of tiny hairs, fashioned from elastomer that use an intermolecular force known as van der Waal's force to stick to things. There seem to be many great applications for this technology and its little surprise that the Pentagon is interested in this research.

They have posted some awesome (but large) videos of the Stiky Bot.