PARIS: A wall-crawling robot inspired by the gecko has taken a small but important step towards a future in space, scientists said on Thursday.
The tiny legged prototype could be the forerunner of automatons which crawl along the hulls of spacecraft, cleaning and maintaining them, the European Space Agency (ESA) said.
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