Robert Full is a professor at the University of California-Berkeley. He studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build the perfect "distributed foot" for tomorrow's robots, based on nature's engineering.

In this video he describes the remarkable features of insect and animal legs, and shows you a robot built based on these same principles:

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