Contact: Sarah Yang
scyang@berkeley.edu
510-643-7741
University of California - Berkeley
Caption: Quarter clinging to a steeply inclined glass slide. The glass slide is inclined 80 degrees from horizontal. The contacting side of the quarter is covered by a sheet of the micro fiber array. No adhesive is used to keep quarter from sliding.
Credit: (Photo courtesy of the Fearing Group, UC Berkeley)
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