BioInspired! So What? Now What!

The Robotics in Scansorial Environments (RSE) project "is a collaboration among researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, Stanford, U.C. Berkeley, Lewis & Clark University and Boston Dynamics Inc. to develop an agile climbing robot based on principles gleaned from the study of climbing animals." 

Extensive information about the StickyBot project that explored controllable, dry adhesion can be found in the Previous BDML Wiki System.

Thanks to StickyBot and Directional Adhesion for the pointer!