They also began work in 2012 developing Gecko-adhesive grippers, as part of work to build a Gecko Gripper Touch-to-Grasp tool that incorporated JPL’s "synthetic Gecko adhesive technology that mimics the ability of Gecko lizards to adhere to walls." The work leveraged previous work done by Altius on uncooperative capture mechanisms using electroadhesion.Altius Space Machines Wins Contract to Develop Touch-to-Grasp Gripper with JPL, accessed June 28, 2014.Phoenix Gecko Gripper, accessed June 28, 2014.
