Video: Stanford proved that Spider-Man’s ability to climb walls is real

Scientists from the University of Cambridge have decided to find out if a person can climb walls. In their opinion, for this, the human body must be 40% covered with adhesive plates, such as those used by geckos.

Stanford denied this opinion and showed that the super-power of spider-man is possible.

You can start looking from the 56th second, skipping excerpts from a Cambridge study.
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Scientists from Cambridge published a study that analyzed more than two hundred animals that are capable of using vertical adhesion forces to climb vertical surfaces, as does, for example, a gecko. And it was the gecko that reached the maximum sizes for animals of this category. The greater the mass of the animal - the greater must be the adhesive surface. A person needs to take 40% of the body in sticky areas.

Stanford engineers have refuted this study, they used the technology of 2014 and distributed the weight of a person to twenty-four adhesive pads on each arm. And climbed onto a vertical glass wall to the cheerful music from the old animated series about spiderman.

Each of the pads is covered with microscopic polymer structures optimized for flat surfaces. With the help of the same van der Waals inter-molecular interaction forces last year, the robot was forced to move around the glass ceiling .

This video was published in 2014: