Robert Full on engineering and evolution

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• Robert Full on engineering and evolution

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• Kellar Autumn, Yiching Liang, S. Tonia Hsieh, Wolfgang Zesch, Wai Pang Chan, Thomas Kenny, Ronald Fearing & Robert J. Full, Adhesive force of a single gecko hair, Nature, 2000

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An explanation about the sensor can be found in the paper, of which the speaker is a co-author.
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We were fortunate to work with another group

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at Stanford that built us a special manned sensor
at Stanford that built us a special MEMS sensor

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that we were able to measure the force of an individual hair.