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Robert Full: Aprendiendo de la cola del geco.

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El biólogo Robert Full estudia el sorprendente geco, con sus patas superadherentes y su habilidad tenaz de escalar. Pero las grabaciones a cámara lenta revelan que la cola del geco esconde quizás el más sorprendente talento de estos animales.

Robert Full studies cockroach legs and gecko feet. His research is helping build the perfect "distributed foot" for tomorrow's robots, based on evolution's ancient engineering. Full bio »

Translated into Spanish by Julio Alberto Cartaya
Reviewed by Juan Carlos Cuervo
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