Arom Tech provides solutions inspired by Nature. Biomimetics is a highly interdisciplinary area that encapsulates biology, dynamics and solid mechanics, intermolecular science and mechanism design.
　

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Gecko Tape (Directional adhesive)  The world's first directional anisotropic adhesive. It has Anisotropic structure enables controllable adhesion providing directionality in adhesion. The movie clip  demonstrates directional adhesion compared to conventional double sided tape. Unlike conventional tape, its adhesion can be controlled by shear load.  If it is loaded in desired direction, without significant amount of normal preload, it creates high friction and adhesion maximizing contact area and is also able to detach with by reducing shear load. if it is loaded in wrong direction, the adhesion force is very low.  Click here for details.

Stickybot  The world's first glass-climbing quadruped robot equipped with Gecko Tape Gecko Tape (Directional adhesive). This is my latest and greatest creation in my Ph.D. Most of the concept design is based on my sketch that I drew in the airplane from meeting with RiSE group in March 2005. It took me about an year to make this robot start to climb. This platform is embodiment of principles of adhesion - hierarchical compliance, controllable directional adhesion and distribution of forces. It runs at 24cm/s and climbs 0.8m/min on glass, acrylic and similar smooth surfaces.  It exhibits novel mechanism features that I invented.... Click here for details.

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