If you live in California, you’ve probably seen, or held, a western fence lizard. According to a leading dataset of animal and plant observations, the species is the most commonly spotted ...

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 surfaces.

We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. In layman's terms, biomimetics is a science-backed technique that involves emulating aspects of nature to create better solutions.

"The idea is to utilize biomimetics as a scientific discipline to understand how nature is creating and developing those functions, and to apply them in our industry and in our products.