Researchers led by Stanford engineer Elliot Hawkes have created a pair of gecko-inspired gloves that enable users up to 200 pounds to scale smooth, vertical panes of glass. As one biomechanical ...

From gloves that let you scale skyscrapers like Spiderman, to implants that could give you the self-healing powers of Wolverine, researchers are putting these sci-fi notions within our grasp.

Spider-Man isn’t the only one who can do whatever ... Scientist Elliot Hawks and his team have devised special gloves that let people under 200 lbs can scale glass walls like—wait for it ...

One picture from his gallery shows off something we've never seen before, virtual reality gloves that let you do a number of things, including shoot webs from your hand like Spider-Man.

Prototype "Spiderman gloves" that will enable window cleaners to scale walls, robots to scurry across ceilings and rock climbers to hang about could be ready within three years. There has been ...

Spiderman, Spiderman, does everything a spider can! Including, it seems, using home-made vacuum gloves to stickily scale the walls of the BBC’s White City building, a vertical drop of 120 ...

A boy who was born without fingers on his left hand can now feel his Spidey senses tingling, after being given a prosthetic glove modelled on the hand of Spiderman. Brandon Breeckner, 5 ...

But a Stanford team struck back, resurfacing their own Gecko Glove invention to prove that even if the tech isn’t perfect, Spider-Man’s superpowers are definitely possible. The Cambridge team ...