{"id":687,"date":"2008-09-13T06:29:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T22:29:30","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-03T18:42:55","modified_gmt":"2011-09-03T10:42:55","slug":"cal-scientists-one-step-closer-to-spiderman-like-substance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/687\/","title":{"rendered":"Cal Scientists: One Step Closer To Spiderman-Like Substance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/news\/17441197\/detail.html?dl=headlineclick\">Cal Scientists: One Step Closer To Spiderman-Like Substance &#8211; News Story &#8211; KNTV | San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to UC Berkeley researchers, that day may come for the rest of us. The scientists announced Wednesday they have made progress in creating a synthetic, gecko-like adhesive that shakes off dirt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It brings us closer to being able to build truly all-terrain robots, which will in the future be able to scamper up walls and across ceilings in everyday environments rather than only on clean glass,&#8221; said Ron Fearing, UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>interesting that this material will allow machines to climb almost vertical surfaces. there are a number of applications with the increasing number of skyscrapers being built today.<\/p>\n<p><!--break--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>source site &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc11.com\/news\/17441197\/detail.html?dl=headlineclick\">Cal Scientists: One Step Closer To Spiderman-Like Substance &#8211; News Story &#8211; KNTV | San Francisco<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>According to UC Berkeley researchers, that day may come for the rest of us. The scientists announced Wednesday they have made progress in creating a synthetic, gecko-like adhesive that shakes off dirt.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It brings us closer to being able to build truly all-terrain robots, which will in the future be able to scamper up walls and across ceilings in everyday environments rather than only on clean glass,&#8221; said Ron Fearing, UC Berkeley professor of electrical engineering and computer science.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>interesting that this material will allow machines to climb almost vertical surfaces. there are a number of applications with the increasing number of skyscrapers being built today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[385],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sci-tech","tag-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1639,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thefazz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}