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Gripping like geckos: Stanford lab develops the world’s “stickiest non-sticky” material

Stanford Mechanical Engineering professor Mark Cutkosky’s Biomimetics and Dexterous Manipulation Lab (BDML) studies the properties of this lizard’s uncanny ability to stick to surf

February 01, 2023
Nine Stanford faculty receive NSF CAREER Award

CDR faculty members Sean Follmer and Monroe Kennedy received NSF CAREER Awards

January 04, 2023
Tau Beta Pi Announces 2022 Teaching Award and Teaching Honor Roll

Prof. Sheppard named to the Teaching Honor Roll

June 13, 2022
Faculty Women’s Forum celebrates 2022 award winners

Prof. Okamura & Prof. Sheppard among the winners of the Faculty Women’s Forum Awards 2022

June 07, 2022
Researchers create a device that imitates social touch, but from afar

January 20, 2022
Stanford engineers create perching bird-like robot

December 02, 2021
Prof. Okamura among eight faculty members appointed as 2021 Bass Fellows

October 22, 2021
Sheri Sheppard: It’s joyful to struggle with new concepts

July 08, 2021
- Faculty
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Stanford ‘gecko gripper’ tested on the International Space Station

May 24, 2021
Mark Cutkosky: The work in my lab centers around bio-inspired robots

March 04, 2019
- Faculty
Allison Okamura: I wasn’t one of those kids that always loved robots

March 04, 2019
- Faculty
Stanford engineering design course reaches its 50th year

June 14, 2018
- Faculty
Life, like surfing, requires ‘catching the wave’ at a precise moment, Leifer says

interview with Larry Leifer

May 29, 2001