One of the first instances of bio-inspiration was Velcro influenced by the sticky burrs of the burdock plant. In this episode, host Danni Washington takes a fascinating and fun look at Velcro and other ways inventors have “stuck” with nature including robots that can scale walls or pick-up any object thanks to bugs and chameleons, suction cups inspired by one sucky fish, and an innovation based on the holy-grail of all adhesively-inclined animalsà the gecko!

Originally released by Rotfeld Productions, 2016. Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on April 06, 2018.

Adhesives in Nature (5:31); --Friday Harbor Labs (4:35); -- Adhesive Properties of Geckos (3:50); -- Geckskin (5:36); -- Biomimicry and the Future (1:54); .