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Robert Full: Imparando dalla coda del geco

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Il biologo Robert Full studia il meraviglioso geco, con le sue zampe super aderenti e la sua tenace abilità di scalatore. Ma le immagini al rallentatore rivelano che nella coda del geco si nasconde forse il talento più sorprendente di questo animale.

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 Italian by Marco Morgione
Reviewed by Maria Gitto
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