Sing along with me: “Spider-Man, Spider-Man // Does whatever a spider can // He can climb, as you can see // With vacuum suction cups from Zhejiang University.” The innovative suction unit ...

In each instance, you can see water is pushed out of the device when the suction cup is moved. In practice, that means a wall-climbing robot using this technique will need a whole lot of water to ...

Here was our original coverage of his exploits. Here was our original coverage A man who used rubber suction cups to climb the Gateway Arch on Monday morning and then parachuted 630 feet to the ...

While there already are powered suction-cup devices that allow people or robots to climb walls, they only work on smooth surfaces. Chinese scientists, however, have now developed a system that ...

I'm not sure how they got the name "human fly" for this guy climbing Trump Tower. It appears he was using suction cups for his climbing device, so maybe a name like "Suction Cup Boy" would work ...

even experienced climbers won't use suction cups, "but they'll use almost everything else," says Tom Kirby, an instructor and guide with the American Alpine Institute, a decades-old climbing ...

The suction cups are passive, meaning they don't require a vacuum pump, reducing weight and power consumption, which are longstanding enemies of robots. (That's doubly true for climbing robots.) ...

The suction-cup paddles in each of my hands are harnessed ... The gecko gets all of those hairs in very close contact with the wall he's climbing or the ceiling he's hanging from, and they all ...

Look at this guy who decided to use suction cups to scale the side of Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue. This is the best sports event happening on American soil today.

A man spent more than 2 ½ hours scaling the glass facade of Trump Tower on Wednesday using large suction cups, climbing as high as the 21st floor before police officers grabbed him and hauled him ...

And to colonize new habitats, determined little fish climb their way up Hawaiian waterfalls with their suction-cup mouths, like reverse wall ball toys. This superhero-like fish, the Nopili rock ...